Campus Quotes - Page 2

• Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Religious, College

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• I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

  Whitfield Diffie

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.

  Kent McCord

  College, Unrest, Reason

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• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

  Richard Linklater

  Interesting, Gone, Able

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Block, Home, Byu

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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  Military, College, Class

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• How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

  Tim Reid

  Morning, Community, Black

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Natalie Portman

  Stars, Smart, College

  "Cerebral Celebs Give Up Screen for Studies". New York Post, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2002.

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• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Natalie Portman

  Stars, Smart, College

  "Model of integrity" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 03, 2004.

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• The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humorous, Science, People

  Richard P. Feynman's letter to Robert Bacher (April 6, 1950) as quoted in "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman", book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Mother, School

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 07, 2015

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• Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Distance, Classroom, University

  "I got my degree through E-mail" by Lisa Gubernick, Ebeling, www.forbes.com. June 16, 1997.

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• When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, School, College

  "Work Together: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Common Decency, Barbarians

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• Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

  J. D. Salinger

  Boys, College, Men

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.

  Tammara Webber

  Class, Knowing, Made

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• I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Real, School, College

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• I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

  Catherine Hicks

  Drama, Joy, Dames

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• It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

  Kathleen Hanna

  College, Issues, Unexpected

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• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  Gary Johnson

  Directors, Students, Enjoy

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• When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

  Dennis Miller

  Revenge, Character, Kids

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.126, Crown Forum

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

  Matthew Quick

  Blue, Yellow, People

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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