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I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
School
High
High School
Guys
Knew
Were
Started
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
Robert Darnton
History
You
People
School
Tell
High
Rigorous
Hated
High School
Give
Exciting
Course
Because
Intellectually
Fun
Expression
My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.
Robert David Hall
Me
School
Father
Made
Three
Latin
High
High School
Take
Years
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
Robert Fortune
High
High Price
Small
Variety
Price
Generally
Pine
Very
Prized
Stone
Chinese
Manner
Much
Species
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
Robert Fortune
Love
Gardening
People
Marked
High
Feature
Both
Low
Flowers
The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.
Robert Fortune
Tree
Evidently
Miniature
Out
High
About
Stem
Had
Feet
Came
Branches
Six
Size
Aged
Manner
Regular
Appearance
Symmetrical
For over a decade, I had played every week, so to then have a season when you are not - that physical and mental high when you build up to a game and come down afterwards - was missing. It takes a while to adjust and is quite confusing.
Robert Green
You
Game
Build
Down
Every
Adjust
High
Physical
Mental
Week
Had
Takes
Over
Missing
Come
Up
Decade
Quite
Afterwards
While
Then
Confusing
Season
Played
My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.
Robert Griffin III
Good
Great
Family
Me
School
Job
College
Parents
High
Great Job
High School
Thus
Greatest
Accomplishment
Sisters
Did
Graduated
Representative
Far
Two
Raising
You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.
Robert Griffin III
Me
You
Natural
Determination
School
Mind
College
Speed
Mindset
High
High School
Give
He
Put
Always
Built
Due
Came
Just
Where
Anything
Coaches
Your
Dad
Belief
Foundation
Credit
When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass
You
School
Type
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Marlon Brando
High
Trio
High School
Headed
Cal
Supposed
Dean
Were
Shirt
Brando
James
James Dean
Stanford
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
Robert Hewison
Education
Death
Truth
Values
Country
High
Collectively
Fine
Points
Individually
Institutions
Dedicated
Growth
Imaginative
Numbers
Museums
Preservation
25 was my number in high school and college. But when I got traded to Lakers, it was retired, and Derek Fisher had 2, so I was stuck with 5. Nothing more special behind it than that.
Robert Horry
School
College
Nothing
High
High School
High School And College
More
Stuck
Had
Retired
Got
Traded
Fisher
Than
Behind
Lakers
Special
Number
I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject.
Robert Indiana
Love
Writing
School
High
High School
Poetry
Mainly
Since
Concerned
Course
Been
Subject
Endless
Theme
Ever
I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
Robert J. Bentley
Government
We Cannot
High
High Taxes
Anorexic
Cannot
Against
Taxes
Certainly
Function
In a bubble, eventually people start saying, 'Wait a minute... these prices are way too high! What is anyone buying anymore? What could they possibly be thinking?' And then there's a correction and a bursting.
Robert J. Shiller
Saying
People
Wait
Thinking
Too
Way
Correction
High
Possibly
Minute
Could
Prices
Bubble
Anymore
Anyone
Bursting
Then
Eventually
Start
Buying
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
Robert Jackson
Quality
Books
High
High-Quality
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Opinions
Provided
Accounts
Moved
Which
Washington
Early
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
Robert Johnson
Good
Age
Will
Myth
Nothing
Entering
High
See
Through
Modern
Us
Hard
Consciousness
Need
Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
Robert Kiyosaki
Time
Class
School
Word
Mind
Politician
Every
Biology
Every Time
Back
Battery
High
High School
Touched
Mention
Wires
Dead
Make
Hear
Stimulus
Frog
Flashes
Twitch
I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.
Robert Lefkowitz
Teacher
School
Rose
Complex
High
Bronx
District
Born
Rise
Only
Only Child
School Teacher
Known
Accountant
Child
Max
Manhattan
Apartment
Worked
Who
Elementary
Elementary School
Garment
Raised
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
Robert Mundell
School
Teen
Took
High
Running
High School
Casually
Tennis
Town
Boxing
Chess
Lots
Very
Going
Things
I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood - I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in 'The Crucible.' I played John Proctor.
Robert Picardo
Teacher
Me
School
Few
William
High
Penn
John
High School
Shakespeare
Charter
Crucible
Lead
Had
He
Named
Got
Edward
Very
Times
Childhood
Where
Influential
Really
Acted
Figure
Played
Philadelphia
During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful.
Robert Shapiro
Finance
Mutual Funds
Training
Law
High
Securities
Would
Would-Be
Mutual
Some
Knew
Studying
Particular
Undergraduate
Doing
Were
Get
Wanting
Interest
Useful
Companies
Funds
Position
There are instances where, in my mid to late 20s, I very often found myself going for roles that they didn't want to cast me in, because I'd done good work, but in a producer's eyes, I wasn't high enough status. So I lost out.
Robert Sheehan
Work
Myself
Good
Me
Eyes
Good Work
Lost
Enough
Late
Out
High
Status
Cast
Because
Very
Roles
Done
Going
Often
Mid
Where
Want
Producer
Found
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.
Robert Sternberg
Research
Everyone
High
Inside
Self
Self-Esteem
Well
Box
Because
Test
Did
Done
Wants
Esteem
Psychologists
Little
Themselves
Then
Create
Many
I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.
Robert Trujillo
Guitar
School
Cause
Guitar Player
High
High School
Knew
Him
Known
George
Years
Rocky
Junior
Junior High
Junior High School
Many
Player
Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
Robert Vaughn
Me
Money
Enough
Finally
High
Clear
Revealed
Itself
Very
Being
Script
Suddenly
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