College Days Quotes

• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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• I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

  Fred Allen

  Graduation, Education, Laughter

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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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• A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.

  Craig Kilborn

  Drinking, College, Phones

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• Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  College, Fool, College Life

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• Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

  John Green

  Stupid, College, Years

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• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Audio CD "Woody Allen: Stand-Up Comic 1964-1968", 1999.

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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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• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, College, Judgment

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• Live your life to the fullest.

  Shakira

  Life, Birthday, Beauty

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

  Sylvia Plath

  New York, Junior Year, Bell Jar

  The Bell Jar ch. 1 (1963)

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• College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

  Tom Ford

  College, Political, Campus

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• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Helen Keller

  Graduation, Witty, Educational

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

  Patti Stanger

  School, College, Lists

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• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me the material for my early short stories.

  Khushwant Singh

  Sports, Book, Reading

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.

  Andrew Luck

  Dad, Growing Up, College

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• A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

  Newton D. Baker

  College, Men, Association

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• My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Hero, College, Slavery

  George Edward Woodberry (1912). “Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American”

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• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  Tom Lehrer

  Heart, Past, College

  "Song: "Bright College Days" ("An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer")". March 20-21, 1959.

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• As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Children, Ambition

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