College Quotes - Page 8

• Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.

  Lee Corso

  Football, Winning, Games

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• I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Years, Parent

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• The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Goal, Meat, Ends

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.67, Oxford University Press

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• Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Education, Running, Retirement

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• College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

  Vera Brittain

  Vegetation, Scholastics, Secluded

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• For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

  Derek Bok

  Art, May, Way

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• The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

  Derek Bok

  School, Entering, Helping

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• In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

  Dennis Prager

  Race, White, America

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.59, Creators Publishing

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• Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.325, Bantam Classics

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• If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

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• If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, School, Simple

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Lonely, Kids, Age

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• The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Wish, World, Enthusiasm

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• I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Labs, Chemistry

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• I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

  Simon Cowell

  Dream, Thinking, Night

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• I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

  Sloane Crosley

  Jobs, Accepted, Nepotism

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• College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

  Claire Danes

  Self, Essentials, Development

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• I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

  Claire Danes

  Writing, Style, Direct

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• I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

  Claire Danes

  Writing, Term Paper, Pages

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Spring, Believe

  "Shakespeare over the Port". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Israel, Years, Television

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• Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Men, Site, Funny Or Die

  "Zooey Deschanel: funny girl". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  School, People, Gone

  "Middle school girls 'spit in my face,' Zooey Deschanel recalls". www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Girl, Mean, Good Friend

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• Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Home, Ideas

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