College Quotes - Page 25

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Art, Degrees, Painting

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• I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

  Edwin Moses

  School, Medical, Scholarship

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• They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

  Debora Spar

  School, Kids, Fighting

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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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• There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

  Taylor Phinney

  Thinking, Fine, Ifs

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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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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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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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• Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

  Bill de Blasio

  School, Would Be, Public Service

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

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• In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Graduation, Education, Learning

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

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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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• In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

  Hanna Rosin

  Mother, Motivation, Inspiration

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

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Geology, Hoover

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• I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

  Paul Kariya

  Sports, Thinking, Nhl

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• During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them-- for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity -- went almost unnoticed by the rest of the students. In many ways they were like combat veterans coming back from a small, bitter and distant war, able to talk only to other veterans.

  David Halberstam

  War, Years, Practice

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• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Smart, Book, Thinking

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Not all knowledge comes from college.

  Mike Rowe

  Dirty Jobs

  "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. April 30, 2014.

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• You shouldn't go to college unless God has definitely called you to go.

  Keith Green

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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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• 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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• 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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• Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

  Soundarya

  Dad, Science, Medicine

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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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• 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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