Freshman Quotes

• I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

  Jim Carrey

  Mean, Kids, Years

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• I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

  Sue Grafton

  Summer, Teacher, College

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• When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Oklahoma, Games

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• I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

  Kristi Noem

  Leadership, Cutting, Government

  FaceBook post by Kristi Noem from Nov 18, 2010

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• My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  School, Math, Years

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• At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.

  Steven Chu

  Cousin, Brother, Entering

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• Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

  Donna Shalala

  Kids, Years, Class

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• It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, School, Opportunity

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• My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

  Erika Slezak

  Summer, Daughter, Mother

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• I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.

  Joe Tex

  School, Years, Bowling

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• In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  School, Years, Boston

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• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  Owen Wilson

  Senior, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Funny, Cute, Graduation

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• When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

  Casey Affleck

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

  Beverley Mitchell

  College, Giving, Advice

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• I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!

  Katie Cassidy

  School, Play, Feelings

  "Katie Cassidy's Most Confident Moments" by Jamie Primeau, www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

  Mia Hamm

  Basketball, Soccer, School

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• It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

  Jim Leyland

  Senior, Baseball, It Takes Time

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• Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

  John Beilein

  Basketball, Senior, Winning

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• If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Girlfriend, Believe, College

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Running, Baby

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• A lot of people are doubting us right now, ... But the reality is that we've lost two conference games on the last play of the game. . . . We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores running around out there, and they're good players. You look at us on paper, and I think we have the chance to develop into a very good football team this year and into next.

  Kyle Whittingham

  Football, Running, Team

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• There are other ways to motivate students than requiring them to take on debt or work long hours taking away from their studies. For example, we don't allow our kids to work during the school hours their freshman year. After that, they can work a little but not so much that it hurts their education.

  Michelle Singletary

  Hurt, School, Kids

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Player, College

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

  Stephen Karam

  Reading, Play, Knowing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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