College Quotes - Page 11

• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  Victor Cruz

  School, Climbing, Nfl

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• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  Victor Cruz

  Numbers, Coming Out, Outstanding

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• The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

  Christie Hefner

  Firsts, Economy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

  Emily Procter

  Anchors, Weather, News

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• Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

  Ric Keller

  Country, African American, Black

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• And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!

  Spider Robinson

  Mean, Games, Care

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• It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

  J. Maarten Troost

  War, Tea, Development

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• In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

  Donald Kagan

  Statistics, Today, Study

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• Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

  Jonathan Richman

  Friday, Band, Shows

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• The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

  Thad Matta

  Basketball, Ohio State, Iowa

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• A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

  David W. Oxtoby

  Teaching, Faculty Members, Significant

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• I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

  James Maslow

  Degrees, Architecture, Pursue

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• Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.

  William Booth

  Christian, Years, Missionary

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• I was in college, it was my first year of college when I got the show, so I've been kinda' partying a lot and drinking a lot and I've never been stoned and when I got the show I got really serious... So I kinda stop drinking, cold turkey so I had never been stoned until... It's something that happened with Mila and Ashton.

  Topher Grace

  Weed, Party, Drinking

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• Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

  Whitney M. Young

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

  Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”

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• We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

  Roy Barnes

  School, Names, Training

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• I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.

  Pauley Perrette

  School, Gone, Scandal

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• I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

  Arthur Godfrey

  School, Symphony, Playing Music

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• I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, School, Engineering

  "Taking imagination seriously". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college

  Steve Albini

  Chicago, Moved

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• My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Fun, Years

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• So many times we look for those things in life we can measure.... The college degree, the money we earn, the success we brag about.... But the little things in life, the minute moments...not taken for granted, the value of their treasure is substantial all the more.

  Samuel S. Sumner

  Life, Taken, Degrees

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• The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Summer, Experience

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• I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

  Alex Karras

  Inspirational, Football, Teenager

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• There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

  Dante Hall

  Football, Nfl, Fortune

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