University Quotes - Page 13

• I like the idea of going to university and studying. I didn't do it because it was a back-up plan. In some ways, it kind of goes hand in hand with acting. There's a lot of analysis and enriching your mind, as well as problem solving. And it can only help being around people as an actor.

  Yasmin Paige

  Hands, Ideas, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

  Yasmin Paige

  Challenges, Different, Tvs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

  Marcel Dzama

  Ceramics, Film, Figures

  "Marcel Dzama’s Grandmaster Games". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 8, 2014.

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.

  William C. Rhoden

  Football, Jobs, Moving

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• Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

  David Horowitz

  Research, Fields, Modern

  David Horowitz (2013). “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America”, p.1916, Regnery Publishing

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• Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”

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• The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

  Paracelsus

  Doctors, Wife, Lessons

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• I'm a big fan of fiction film where you have a story and you have to transform that into a visual language, basically working with actors and also transforming that into how you pronounce that in the visual language of the shots, the construction of the shots and the lighting. All of that appealed to me from the beginning of my career at the university. When I graduated from the university, I wanted to deal mainly with that, with the visual aspect of the movie.

  Dror Moreh

  Careers, Fans, Fiction

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

  Julia Bacha

  Study, Middle, Columbia

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• Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

  Jonathan Vilma

  Miami, Study, Habit

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• If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.

  Richard Dawkins

  School, Thinking, Knowing

  "People say I'm strident". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the universities. The state is radically defunding public universities and university presidents, for the most part, rather than defending higher education as a public good, are trying to privatize their institutions in order to remove them from the political control of state governments. This is not a worthy or productive strategy.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Order, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I went to McGill University, but I didn't graduate. They won't graduate me because I didn't have a degree in any one thing. I studied everything and they were like, "You studied too many things, so we can't give you a degree."

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Giving, Degrees, Graduates

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

  Joan Chen

  Summer, Couple, School

  Source: collider.com

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• Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

  Sally Stanford

  Stanford University, Becoming, Dean

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• The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

  Lisa Birnbach

  School, Lines, Miami

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• At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

  Iggy Pop

  Crazy, Reading, Views

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• I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

  Godfrey

  School, Illinois, Class

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• Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

  Dolly Parton

  Believe, Degrees, Tennessee

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• Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.

  Darrell Royal

  Opportunity, Oklahoma, Texas

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• Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.

  Dave Hunt

  Atmosphere, Quests, Around The World

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• No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Successful, College

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• I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

  Judith Curry

  Climate, Speech, Debate

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• ... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.

  C. Wagner

  Christian, Doctors, People

  C. Peter Wagner (2011). “Spiritual Warfare Strategy: Confronting Spiritual Powers”, p.95, Destiny Image Publishers

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