Ucla Quotes - Page 3

• I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

  Bill Walton

  Hurt, Hate, Athlete

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• Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.

  John Wooden

  Running, Wrestling, Impact

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• Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him

  Daphne Zuniga

  Confidence, Real, College

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• My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Spring, School, Italian

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• When I wrote Chuky script, I was a student at UCLA, an undergraduate and my biggest aspiration for it was that I would get my foot in a door somewhere, that I would get an agent or something and it was just beyond my wildest dreams that this big-time producer, David Kirschner.

  David Kirschner

  Dream, Doors, Feet

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Real, Exercise, Black And White

  "This Day in UCLA History: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Becomes A Bruin". Bruins Nation Interview, www.bruinsnation.com. May 5, 2015.

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• But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Song, Party, Sunshine

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• Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

  Dori Berinstein

  Growing Up, Taken, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

  Andrea M. Ghez

  World, Telescopes, Faculty

  "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.

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• UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Ice, Soul, Alex

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

  Todd Haynes

  Restoration, Lawyer, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

  Carol Burnett

  Art, Writing, Class

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

  Akeem Ayers

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

  James Franco

  Usc, Students, Graduates

  "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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• I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Heart, Athlete, Rooms

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• At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

  Hugh Nibley

  Learning, Knack, Littles

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• I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teacher, Believe

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• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  Aaron Koblin

  Summer, Beach, Hippie

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• In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

  David Von Drehle

  Book, Kids, Cutting

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• My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

  Beth Behrs

  Girl, College, Girlfriend

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track."

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Unique, Kentucky

  "John Calipari Won't Acknowledge That Louisville Is In Kentucky" by Mike Rutherford, www.sbnation.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

  James Franco

  Teaching, Years, Nyu

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• If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

  Bill Walton

  Team, School, Eight

  "Seven of the Dirtiest Teams in College Basketball History" By Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Dream, Games, Television

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