College Quotes - Page 21

• When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Successful, Kenya, Actors

  "Lupita Nyong'o" by T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I think I really benefited from going to college.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Thinking, Going To College

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• African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

  Chaka Fattah

  Children, Years, Miracle

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• Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

  Ross Martin

  Firsts, Watches, Campaigns

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• I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

  Michele Gorman

  Dream, Magic Kingdom, Advice

  Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Team, Weekend

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• I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

  Carrot Top

  Plans

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• I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

  Hamish Linklater

  Trying, English Major, Majors

  "Hamish Linklater Stops Time, Fights Aliens, Discovers The Future". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2011.

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• My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

  Beth Behrs

  Girl, Ucla, Girlfriend

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.

  Ken Blackwell

  December, Vote, Winner

  "Keith Olbermann's Interview With Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell". "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.onlisareinsradar.com. November 29, 2004.

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• I never went to college, so I went to the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  Library

  "Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration" by Dan Gillmor, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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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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• I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle degree of instruction, calculated for the common purposes of life and such as should be desirable for all who were in easy circumstances. And 3d. an ultimate grade for teaching the sciences generally and in their highest degree... The expenses of [the elementary] schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Teaching, School

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• When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

  Sheena Easton

  Kids, High Heels, Drag

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• I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Confidence, Achievement, World

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• When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

  Terri Windling

  Love, Girl, Passion

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• As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

  Alfre Woodard

  Christian, Real, Science

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• I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

  Christine Lahti

  Careers, Feminist, Political

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• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Intelligent, People, Influence

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• No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, School, Past

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.308, Hoover Press

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• I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

  Piper Perabo

  Ohio, Years, Two

  "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow" with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Shoes, Two, Boots

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• When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I was eighteen and thought that I knew all about driving. It was Christmastime, and my parents were living on a ranch in Wyoming. I picked up my two grandmot.

  F. Burton Howard

  Utah, Years, Two

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?

  Molly Ivins

  Inspiring, Mean, Thinking

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