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I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.
Bo Burnham
Writing
School
Summer
Backstage
High
High School
Silly
Following
Online
Piano
Songs
Put
Sort
Doing
Getting
Theater
Little
Them
Eventually
Started
It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.
Bo Jackson
Day
Me
School
College
First
Big
Year
High
Indiana
High School
Got
Occurred
Still
Junior
Junior Year
Letter
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
Bo Jackson
People
School
Finished
Kids
Out
High
High School
School Kids
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
Bob Balaban
Business
Creative
School
Poet
Baby
Would
Born
Something
Writer
He
Him
Were
Been
Very
Loved
Sent
Successful
Business School
Dad
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
Bob Beamon
Me
School
Ellis
Gave
High
High School
Something
Could
He
New
Make
Said
Shoot
York
New York
Jamaica
Coach
Team
Larry
Olympic
An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.
Bob Beckel
Education
Best
Problem
School
Local
Local School
Find
Thousands
Districts
Charter
Charter Schools
Could
Outright
Attempt
Students
School Districts
Failures
Attract
Schools
Were
Provide
Often
Them
Choice
Meant
Many
Brightest
Level
Early
Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.
Bob Beckel
Education
Alone
Good
Family
Blame
School
Impossible
Made
Poverty
Country
Cities
Schools
Parts
Decaying
Tax
Breakdown
Public
Public School
Many
Bases
Nearly
My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.
Bob Goff
Great
School
Worst
Out
Subject
Them
Turns
Starting
We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
Bob Livingston
Government
People
School
Gone
Group
Invited
Invites
House
Ambassador
Target
America
Trying
Might
Certain
Play
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
Bob Riley
School
Focus
First
Pay
Our
Spending
Out
Classrooms
Propose
Instead
Taking
Budget
Come
Employee
Sure
Making
Opponents
Children
Should
Pay Raise
Larger
Million
Raise
I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.
Bob Saget
School
Club
Kid
Join
Never
League
Camp
Ivy
Ivy League
Get
I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.
Bob Seger
Emotions
School
High
High School
About
Written
Period
Still
Friends
Did
Moves
Connect
Original
Night
I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.
Bobbi Brown
Business
Management
School
Thought
Never
Clear
Ideas
Learned
Artist
Happened
Really
Should
Business School
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
Bobbie Ann Mason
Knowledge
School
Father
Girl
Country
Before
High
Born
High School
About
She
Quest
Died
Just
Vietnam
Who
Her
Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.
Bobbie Ann Mason
School
Smart
Reading
Way
Further
Stay
One-Way
Classroom
Takes
Feeding
Go
Forever
Just
Us
Deeper
My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.
Bobby Bones
Mom
School
Finished
Before
Back
Out
High
High School
Dropped
She
Got
Died
Pregnant
Forties
Her
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
Bobby Cannavale
Good
School
Clown
Setting
Kind
High
High School
Classroom
Never
Sort
Got
Lot
Very
Suspended
I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
Bobby Flay
Work
School
Out
High
High School
No Interest
Had
Dropped
Doing
Whatsoever
Any
Interest
Really
I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.
Bobby Keys
People
School
Band
Other
Saxophone
Out
Tell
High
High School
Could
No-One
Wrong
Whether
Notes
Baritone
Right
Played
My dad demanded results. I wasn't expected just to be a student, I was supposed to get straight A's. My dad didn't want me just to play sports, he pushed me to win state championships in high school and national championships.
Bobby Lashley
Me
Sports
Win
School
National
State
High
High School
Results
Student
Pushed
He
Demanded
Supposed
Expected
Get
Just
Want
Straight
Dad
Play
Championships
I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
Bobby McFerrin
Together
School
Old
Jazz
Living
Mack
High
High School
Put
Since
Making
Been
Years
Bands
Senior
Then
Bobby
Organist
Actually
Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
Bobby McFerrin
Time
Best
School
College
Country
Big
Band
Programs
Had
California
Big Band
Left
Southern
Southern California
Which
Then
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
Bobby Moynihan
World
School
College
Believe
Giants
High
Possibly
High School
High School And College
He
Quite
Fan
Biggest
Wore
Dad
Jersey
Phil
Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
Bobby Vinton
Happy
People
School
Seen
Hey
High
Outer
High School
Records
Crowds
Never
Most
Although
Were
Been
Selling
Very
Us
Who
I do live a very Hugh Beaumont existence. I'm up every morning, taking my kids to school and all that, which obviously does interest me. But then it's taking meetings with goofballs and auditioning for crap, and then I spend a lot of time on the road.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Time
Morning
Me
School
Live
Every
Meetings
Spend
Kids
Road
Taking
Obviously
Does
Auditioning
Existence
Lot
Up
Very
Hugh
Crap
Which
Interest
Then
I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.
Bode Miller
Saying
Good
Me
School
Thought
Too
Through
Had
Period
Terrible
Because
Were
Snowboarding
Wanted
Boarding
Boarding School
Skiing
Should
Coaches
Skinny
Luckily
Switch
Technique
Resisted
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