Columbia Quotes - Page 2

• Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

  David Dinkins

  Children, Fun, Real

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• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, College, Men

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• As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

  Rick Larsen

  Winter, Opportunity, Games

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• Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.

  John L. Phillips

  Space, Agency, Progress

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• There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

  Duane G. Carey

  Done, Amount

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• There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

  Denis Kearney

  Chinese, Borders, Mexico

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• I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.

  David Guterson

  Strong, Doors, Years

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• The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  America, Three, Coast

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.56, VM eBooks

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• I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

  Gene Tierney

  Eye, Cameras

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Kids, Long

  The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

  Russell Banks

  Couple, Years, Nyu

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Stay Strong, New York, Paris

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

  Sidney Altman

  Summer, Eight, Colorado

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• You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.

  Muriel Bowser

  Hate, Gun, Way

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• Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

  Jesse Jackson

  America, Issues, Rights

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• Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Firsts, Diploma

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.172, Broadway Books

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• Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.

  Ward Churchill

  Children, School, Talking

  "The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools". Book by Ward Churchill, November 2004.

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• I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, White, People

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• Egypt is the mind of the Earth. The heart actually is in Mexico, and some say in Columbia. Tahiti/Morea sits in the feminine South Pole of the Christ grid and that is why they did the nuclear experiments there. The area inside the tube torus that moves up through there enters into the very center of the beam of the Earth. That's why I called it the womb - it goes right into the private personal aspect of the Earth. And they exploded the bombs, right down this center.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Moving, Heart, Egypt

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• When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

  Josh McDowell

  Directors, Ridiculous, Remember

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• I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Airplane, Records, Band

  "Bruce Springsteen Interviewed by Ed Norton" by Sophia Savage and Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 16, 2010.

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• The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

  Cass Sunstein

  Blessed, Yale, Law

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• Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Mean, Wings

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Blow

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?

  Eric Foner

  Dog, Book, Writing

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