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Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo. -- Daniel Roth
We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over. -- Terence McKenna
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate. -- Robert D. Putnam
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school. -- Walter Dean Myers
A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school. -- Arianna Huffington
If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.' -- Sean Covey
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so. -- James S. Coleman
With the situation in Iraq growing ever more dangerous, the 34-member Coalition of The Willing are, one by one, dropping out to join the other coalition known as Most of The Rest of The World. -- Jon Stewart
WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES FRIENDS WERE UNABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS, I DECIDED THAT I WAS A FEMINIST. -- Emma Watson
We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners. -- Bernie Sanders
I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these. -- Joe Klein
I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work. -- George Harrison
Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life. -- Timothy Leary
Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college. -- Barack Obama
I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship with 400 kilos of explosives in the cockpit. Of course it is true that the pilot would be killed, but everything would blow up, and that's what counts. -- Jules Vedrines
College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth. -- Alex Tabarrok
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant. -- Michael Grant
I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head. -- Jill Scott
I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing ... I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job. -- Elizabeth Hand
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. -- Ovid
Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools. -- Adam Fletcher
If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope. -- Andy Roddick
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. -- Gillian Armstrong
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse. -- Zephyr Teachout
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. -- Steve Jobs
There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it. -- Maureen Connolly
Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school. -- Hank Johnson
Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to. -- Mindy Kaling
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence. -- Ryan Holmes

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