College Quotes - Page 38

• Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

  Kevin Powers

  Memories, Powerful, School

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Rights, Government, Democracy

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• The source is knowledge. Wanna go to college, or wanna be garbage?

  Big Daddy Kane

  Education, Garbage, Source

  Song: Rap Summary

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• They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, Trying, Want

  Song: Pencil-thin mustache, 1974

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• When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, Degrees, College Degree

  Song: We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About, Album: One Particular Harbour, 1983

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• It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

  Steve Pavlina

  Funny, Jobs, Mean

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• A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

  Donal Logue

  Senior, Football, Running

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

  Dylan Lauren

  Thinking, Aqua, Becoming

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• If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

  Jacob Lew

  Jobs, Able, Students

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• I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.

  Guy Oseary

  Years, People, Missing

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• I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

  Jim Parsons

  Class, Age, Meteorology

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

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• In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Teacher, Too Much, Comedy

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

  Tom Perrotta

  Summer, Men, Yale

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• I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

  David Rubenstein

  Letters, Students, Columbia

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• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Religious, Rights, America

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

  Kim Raver

  Makeup, Hair, Class

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

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• I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

  Martin Ryle

  Oxford, Educated

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• You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Kids, School

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• I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Jobs, Three, Students

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• I was an English major in college!

  Maggie Siff

  English Major, Majors

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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, Years, Acting

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

  David Selby

  Class, Theater, Advisors

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• I never dated much in high school or college.

  David Spade

  School, High School

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

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• My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

  George Stigler

  Teaching, Iowa, States

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• I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  J.K. Simmons

  Degrees, Tools, Realizing

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

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