Graduates Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

  Naomie Harris

  Boss, Advice, Honest

  "My first boss: Naomie Harris". Interview with Tola Awogbamiye, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2003.

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• North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

  Bobby Heenan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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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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• Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

  Faith Hill

  Graduation, Football, Children

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• The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

  Erica Jong

  People, Want, Firsts

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• After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

  Rachel Maddow

  Graduation, Tonight, Happens

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• I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

  Michio Kaku

  Class, Effort, Language

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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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• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Daughter, Mother, Nice

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• It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.

  Rick Santorum

  Children, School, Interesting

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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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• Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

  Andrew Shue

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

  Richard Simmons

  Dog, Islands, Ice Cream

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

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• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  Vernon L. Smith

  Engineering, Kansas, Economics

  Vernon L. Smith (2008). “Discovery - A Memoir”, p.126, AuthorHouse

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• I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

  Steven Spielberg

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe
  -the open sesame to every soul.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Peace, Essence

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• I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

  Taylor Swift

  Towns, Small Town, Happens

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

  Clark Terry

  Music, School, College

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• It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Circles, Way, States

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• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”

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