College Quotes - Page 30

• A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback.

  Mack Brown

  Years, People, Half

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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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• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  Dana Hill

  Mother, Brother, Love Is

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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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• It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

  Cheryl Lynn

  School, Years, Boots

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• I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

  John Corbett

  Class, Play, Acting

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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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• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  Danica McKellar

  Math, Class, Drug

  "Danica McKellar Promotes New Math Book By Posing in Lingerie for 'Maxim'" by JJ Duncan, www.zimbio.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

  Bill Fitch

  Leadership, Sports, Beach

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.

  Alec Soth

  Beautiful, Book, School

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• I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Class, Training, Formal

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• Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

  Doc Watson

  People, Plus, Traditional

  "Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Icon, Dies at 89", www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Academic, Professors

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.

  Jim Rogers

  Writing, Math, Skills

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• More women are graduating from college now than men.

  Mitch McConnell

  Men, Graduates, College Graduates

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• Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Textbooks, Great Depression

  Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

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• I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

  Michael Eisner

  Taken, School, Ideas

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, School, Fate

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• And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

  Rube Goldberg

  Years, Junior Year, Juniors

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• Yes, I took a remedial algebra course in college. I struggled in math in high school and didn’t have confidence to plunge in with a for-credit algebra course. The remedial course gave me a lot of confidence so that when I took the for-credit algebra course it was fairly easy and I got a ‘B,’ of which I remain proud today!

  Jim Stafford

  School, Math, Credit

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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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• Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters?

  Art Buchwald

  Beautiful, Girl, Mother

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