College Quotes - Page 18

• The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Reason, Should, College Education

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, Life Is, Complete Life

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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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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• 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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• 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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• I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

  Bo Burnham

  Dream, Eight, Hours

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

  Henry Kravis

  Summer, New York, Wall

  "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

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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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• Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

  Michael N. Castle

  Choices, African American, Delaware

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• In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Editors, Rose, Dawn

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• One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

  David O. Sacks

  Years, Grandpa, Diversity

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• I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Looks

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• Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Doors, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

  Dan Gable

  Mean, Wrestling, Thinking

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• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Biology, Physical Education

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• The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, Library

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• Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion crews. Honesty is not the best policy when leading a bunch of college rowers. They are looking for strong, disciplined leadership and not a kinder, gentler coach. Once you've established a certain attitude and demeanor, it's nearly impossible to change to a difference mode in mid-season.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Strong, Honesty, Attitude

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• One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Boys, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.391

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• Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions.

  Auren Hoffman

  Race, Important, Admission

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• College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

  Andy Stern

  Fun, Sleep, Two

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• Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

  Robert Frost

  Family, United States, Gang

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me to buy a pair as well. I didn't like black, so I got the sand color, and I've been wearing them since college.

  Andy Spade

  Dad, Color, Jeans

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• You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, Office, Community

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• Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

  Sue Wicks

  Stars, America, Television

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• I bowled for two years in college, because I was drunk and needed shoes.

  Kathleen Madigan

  Years, Shoes, Two

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