College Quotes - Page 35

• The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

  Godfried Danneels

  June, Boston, Murder Victims

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• Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Teacher, Encouragement, School

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• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

  Ossie Davis

  Get Back

  Ossie Davis (1993). “Purlie Victorious: A Commemorative”, Emmalyn II Prod Co Inc

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• During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Guitar, Bass, Fit

  "Ronnie Dunn: Celebrity Art Collector". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Drama, School, Years

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• I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

  Jenna Fischer

  Moving, School, Want

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• For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.

  Missy Franklin

  Girl, Believe, Stills

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• I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.

  Jorja Fox

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

  Creed Bratton

  Fire, Iron, Nicknames

  "Questions and Answers With Creed Bratton". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. February 15, 2013.

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• My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

  Kenneth Arrow

  New York, Sacrifice, Cities

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• I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

  Kina Grannis

  Ideas, Important, Bigs

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• In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

  Gareth Gates

  Girl, Life Changing, Who I Am

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• I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

  Gordon Gee

  President, Skins, Needs

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

  Gordon Gee

  Ideas, Impact, Innovation

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

  Gordon Gee

  Believe, Answers, Transport

  "The Spark Lighting the Way" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Jobs, Teaching

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• When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

  Jeff Garcia

  Play, Want, Afl

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• I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

  Melinda Gates

  Goal, Way, Valedictorians

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

  Jessica Alba

  Jobs, Struggle, Kids

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• When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

  Sasha Alexander

  Writing, Acting, Making Money

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 10, 2001.

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• Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.

  Stuart Appleby

  Believe, Fall, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

  Stuart Appleby

  Airports, America, Australia

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

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• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  Tatyana Ali

  Roommate, Campus, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Teacher, Teaching, Excellent

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