Graduates Quotes - Page 8

• What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers.

  Theodore Beale

  College, Names, Benefits

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• I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

  John Doerr

  Engineering, Degrees, Cards

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• Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Believe, Fighting, Generations

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• As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

  Arthur F. Burns

  School, Mind, May

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• You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

  Joan Rivers

  College, Use, Who You Know

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• My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

  Greg Giraldo

  Life Is Short, Positive Life, Stay Positive

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• About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Average, Two

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• Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

  Samuel West

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

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• I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

  Samuel Parris

  Book, College, Arms

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• Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Attitude, College, Obamacare

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• Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Goodbye, School, Emotional

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I hope to get to in my profession. That I'm not just an actor, I'm a storyteller. And I think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set. Makeup artists, actor, whatever. To graduate from just that to storyteller.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Jobs, Artist, Makeup

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.

  George Ayittey

  Unique, Issues, Perspective

  George B.N. Ayittey (2011). “Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World”, p.209, St. Martin's Press

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• Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Five, Five Years

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• A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months. ' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them. '

  Red Skelton

  School, Successful, Three

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• There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and '73 even though his commanding officers are saying he never reported. I think what's even more disturbing is that he received enough credits to graduate from Yale.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Yale, President

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• Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.

  Richard M. Weaver

  School, Our World, Greek

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.167, University of Chicago Press

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• I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.

  Billy Joel

  Teacher, School, Self

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.

  James Dyson

  Mistake, Technology, Hands

  "Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.businessinsider.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

  Harland Williams

  School, Math, Drawing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

  Alan Perlis

  Compassion, Students, Computer

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• The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens.

  Will Smith

  Games, Goal, Focus

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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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• 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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