College Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.

  Beano Cook

  Football, Night, Lsu

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

  Andy Stern

  Fun, Sleep, Two

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• One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

  Mark Skousen

  Writing, Thinking, Wife

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.

  Stan Van Gundy

  Team, Successful, Nba

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• By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

  Albert Maltz

  Writing, Lynching, Firsts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

  John Daniel

  Smart, Firsts, Reeds

  John Daniel (2012). “Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone”, p.136, Counterpoint

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• I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

  Tom T. Hall

  Dirty, Writing, Naughty

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• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Remote and ineffectual don.

  Hilaire Belloc

  University

  'Lines to a Don' (1910)

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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Saint, Routine

  English Traits "Universities" (1856)

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