Grad Quotes - Page 3

• I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

  Saladin Ahmed

  School, Adventure, Years

  Source: fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com

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• My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

  Lena Waithe

  Character, Interesting, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.

  Matt Kuchar

  Home, Lakes, East

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• Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.

  Warren Farrell

  Art, Engineering, Law

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.18, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

  Rachel Hoffman

  Jumping, Careers, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

  Andy Hertzfeld

  School, Apples, Uc Berkeley

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• I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.

  Laura Kipnis

  Sex, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

  George Saunders

  Advice, Littles, Corny

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.17, Random House

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• The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Stress, School, Mad

  Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Jobs, School, Agency

  "Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

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• As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

  Thomas Haden Church

  School, Voice, Actors

  Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 15, 2006.

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• We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

  Mitch McConnell

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

  "Mitch McConnell Republican Convention Speech Targets Obama", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.

  Randy Pausch

  Attitude, Men, Wish

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• It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

  Mark Udall

  Running, School, People

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• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  Aaron Koblin

  Summer, Beach, Hippie

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• Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Sides, Students, Poor

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• In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Jobs, School, Flying

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• My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

  Ana Ortiz

  Mother, School, Supportive

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• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  School, College, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  Dale Archer

  Fall, College, Doors

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• Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

  David Burge

  School, Eagles, Political

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• If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Jobs, Attitude, Educational

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

  Barack Obama

  People, Riding, Faces

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• Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

  Mike Teti

  Country, Wall, School

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• The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

  Craig Clevenger

  Talking, Knowing, Bored

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