Graduates Quotes - Page 17

• I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.

  Amber Heard

  School, Hell, Courses

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Editors, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Military, War, School

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• When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

  Lily King

  Country, War, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

  Lily King

  School, Character, Spain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.

  L. Todd Rose

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

  Anna Journey

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted to feel that he was making music for an elite few. That's fine for him, but I want to set myself free from that sort of attitude.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Attitude, Fall, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.

  Peter Jacobson

  New York, School, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.

  Peter Jacobson

  School, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, School, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

  Garth Greenwell

  School, Opposites, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

  Garth Greenwell

  Teaching, School, Race

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.

  Chris Matthews

  School, Kids, Law

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Swimming, Apples

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Mother, School, Nursing

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

  James Franco

  School, Nyu, Diaries

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Real, Technology

  "Dem Congressman: Obama's Budget A 'Nervous Breakdown On Paper'". Real Clear Politics Video, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2012.

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• A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

  John Naughton

  Loyalty, Powerful, Intelligent

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• People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time ... the best of all investments you can make is to help people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. You can make a commitment right here and now ... I'm asking you today not to graduate but commence a new life for God every step of the way.

  Billy Graham

  Graduation, Jesus, Commitment

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• I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

  George Foreman

  Graduation, School, Sleep

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• A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

  Malcolm X

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

  Erma Bombeck

  Creativity, School, Creative

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• I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

  Fiona Apple

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 4, 2005.

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• After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

  Rachel Maddow

  Graduation, Tonight, Happens

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