Graduates Quotes - Page 13

• Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Creative, United States

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• People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

  Zach Braff

  Garden, People, Lasts

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

  Barney Frank

  Grateful, Funny Graduation, Swim

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• I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

  Dorothy Moore

  Daughter, Mother, Long

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• Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

  Evan Sayet

  School, Medical, Jew

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• I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

  Richard Land

  School, Ivy, League

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, School, Men

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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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• A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.

  George Boas

  College, Healthy, Citizens

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• Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

  Thomas Huxley

  Girl, Wisdom, Sweet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

  Bill Gates

  Business, School, College

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• We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered."

  Patricia Aburdene

  Running, Business, Pigs

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• I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

  Joe Theismann

  Long, Afl, Matter

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• The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  School, Suffering, Lessons

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1991). “With the Word”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Children, Giving, Facts

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• I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Book, Answers, Measurement

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• It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

  Ruth Simmons

  Education, Pain, Priorities

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• Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".

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• When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.

  Mervyn King

  Learning, Years, Civilization

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• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Cliff Stearns

  Home, College, Income

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• 42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Book, College

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• I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Past, Perspective, Historical

  John Lewis Gaddis (2004). “The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

  DeLoss Dodds

  Sports, Real, Spring

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• My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

  Jay Roach

  Track, Guy, Criticism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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