College Quotes - Page 28

• I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Football, Crazy, Games

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• I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Robert Scheer

  Teaching, Usc, Students

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• College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

  Mark Twain

  Brain, Lectures, Students

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• Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

  Rick Steves

  Luxury, Leader, Challenges

  "The World Is A Classroom" by Rick Steves, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

  Ruben Studdard

  Football, Offensive, Knows

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• A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Men

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

  Steven Yeun

  Fans, Detroit, Best Times

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

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• It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

  Margaret Spellings

  Kids, Figure Skating, Figures

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• What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

  William P. Leahy

  Boston, Roots, Catholic

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• Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

  Sherrod Brown

  Years, Broken, Promise

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• I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Smart, Book, School

  "Are Wedding Bells in Snooki's Future?" by Lauren Sher, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Jobs, Wall, Law

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• With faith . . . we must walk to the edge of the light and into the darkness. As we so walk I testify and promise that the light will move. When I was your age and wondering some of the exact same things that you are now wondering, I never would have imagined that someday [we] would be at Ricks College serving as we are. . . . I know the light moves as we walk in faith to the edge of the light.

  David A. Bednar

  Faith, Moving, Light

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• I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

  Jon Secada

  Education, Teacher, Cutting

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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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• Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Drama, School, Play

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

  Kenny Chesney

  Football, Fire, Focus

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• I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.

  Justin Bartha

  New York, School, Kids

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• And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Struggle, Kids

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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 didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  Sarah Vowell

  Ideas, People, Towns

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• My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

  Al Roker

  Silence, Black, Firsts

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• I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.

  Wesley Snipes

  Mistake, Here I Am, Cheese Sandwiches

  "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.

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• When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

  Lily Rabe

  Real, Writing, School

  "Lily Rabe’s Master Class". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2011.

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• 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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