Graduate School Quotes - Page 3

• I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Stupid, School, People

  "Why the Elitist Hatred Toward Palin?" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 10, 2009.

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• I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.

  Brian De Palma

  Beautiful, Girl, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

  Anna Journey

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Country, Writing, School

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• Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

  Tom Freston

  School, Graduates

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• Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

  Emily Yoffe

  Jobs, School, Two

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Girl, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

  Mary Karr

  Smart, School, Students

  "Mary Karr Speaks To HuffPost Books About Her New Memoir 'Lit'", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, School

  "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

  Rachel Nichols

  School, Mean, Graduates

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• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  Donna Leon

  School, Murder Mysteries, Television

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• I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, School, Important

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• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

  Peter Guber

  Brother, School, Marine

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• I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

  Lev Grossman

  School, College, Years

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• Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

  Clark Terry

  Music, School, College

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• Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

  Al Gore

  Summer, School, Years

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• Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

  Michael Arndt

  School, Graduates, Pixar

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• Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Teacher, Encouragement, School

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• It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

  Andrew Greeley

  Art, School, Catholic

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• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

  Tama Janowitz

  Country, Children, Bad Day

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• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, School, Things In Life

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• Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

  Robert Fulghum

  Wisdom, School, Sunday

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Father, Nice, School

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• In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, New York, School

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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