College Quotes - Page 17

• I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

  Edwin Moses

  Track, Track And Field, Fields

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• The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Real, Rocks

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

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• H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.

  Howard Waldrop

  Summer, Senior, Jobs

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• People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

  Paul Tough

  School, People, Get Better

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.

  Joe Flanigan

  Class, People, Shy

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• I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

  Dominic Chianese

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Writing, School, Walking Away

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• It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Dad, Spring, Kids

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books

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• The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

  James O. Freedman

  Father, Purpose, Values

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• If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.

  Bill McKibben

  Degrees, Guarantees, Use

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• Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

  Robert Ballard

  Motivation, Book, Inspiration

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• All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

  Charles Gates, Jr.

  Art, Business, Book

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• I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Geology, Hoover

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• I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

  Frank Wilczek

  Philosophy, Math, Ideas

  Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine (2006). “Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm”, p.516, World Scientific

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• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.217, Melville House

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• When you finish college, you don’t suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere - in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans.

  Maya MacGuineas

  Years, Dollars, Pay

  "Did Obama's speech play fast and loose with the facts?" by Deborah Charles, www.reuters.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Literature, Narrative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was not a good student. I did not spend much
  time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

  Stephen Hawking

  Students, Busy, Enjoy

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• You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?

  Beano Cook

  Football, Team, Who Cares

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• A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Kids, White, Poor Neighborhoods

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• Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Graduation, Senior, Graduates

  "Dare to disagree". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

  Ira Glass

  Jobs, Stupid, Worry

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• Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".

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• It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

  Paula White

  Together, Different, Facts

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