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Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.