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I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

— Kim Kardashian

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

— Fergie

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

— James Patterson

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

— Vik Muniz

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

— Criss Angel

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

— Philip Schultz

I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

— Idris Elba

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

— Alan Kay

✗Opposing Perspectives

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

— Kerry Greenwood

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

— Patricia Polacco

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

— Eminem