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"I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
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"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
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"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."
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"It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs."
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"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
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"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."
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"I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate."
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"I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public."
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"Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living."
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"Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products."
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"They may be a little more high brow than we are."
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"You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable."
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"There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays."
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"While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers."
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"When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you."
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"Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession."
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