He left school after the ninth grade and said he has poor reading skills.
Peter left school early at 16 to join hit-making bands The Herd and Humble Pie.
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He left school without qualifications when he was expelled for attacking a teacher with a chair.
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He was a busman's son who left school at 14 and worked briefly as an electrician's mate.
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He recalled reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as a child, before he left school in the ninth grade.
The son of a mechanic, he was born in Brooke, Norfolk, in 1930 and left school at 16.
McCready left school at 16, intent on pursuing a career in music, and moved to Nashville two years later.
Mr Garlick was born in London in 1926 and left school at 15.
Akasaki finally left school and the rampant bullying that threatened to destroy her.
More than one in six youngsters left school unable to read, write or add up properly, said the report.
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The Scottish Government said more than 90% of pupils who left school achieved a maths qualification equivalent to a Standard Grade.
"I've played for Mansfield since I left school, but this is a massive opportunity for me, " Baptiste told BBC Radio Lancashire.
Those are the words of Jesica McBride, from Coventry, who has been out of work since she left school last year.
He failed his 11-plus, left school with no qualifications, and joined the Merchant Navy for four years "to see the world".
He wished that he had left school at 15 to become an archeologist, as he dearly would have liked to have done.
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He had been to St Paul's, not Eton, and had left school at 16 because his family could no longer afford it.
But I actually had a job lined up for when I left school with--there was a great international show jumper called Pat Smythe.
It has a big budget deficit and deep structural problems (more than half of Portuguese adults left school at the minimum leaving age).
Griffiths was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, and left school at 15 but later returned to education to study drama, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Born in Ilford in north-east London, Ball left school at 14 to be a clerk in an advertising agency and started taking trumpet lessons.
Sean Quinn Sr is a farmer's son who left school at 14 and built a global business empire from humble beginnings in rural County Fermanagh.
He left school at 16 to join the accounts department of a Northampton shoe factory, but became interested in economics through reading John Maynard Keynes.
My mother died of cancer a decade after I left school.
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"I've wanted to do this since I left school but unfortunately I felt I was too young and lifestyle choices got in the way, " he said.
The scheme, which is based on an American concept, was proposed by Islington's lifelong learning manager Chris Jude, who left school herself at the age of 13.
He left school at 14, and apparently taught himself to read by listening to his sister's records and matching the words to those on the record sleeves.
And though he feared he couldn't afford his master's degree, he found work with the research and development arm of the U.S. Army and left school debt-free.
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