Campus Quotes - Page 2

• I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

  Claire Danes

  Yale, Tree, Intimidating

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• I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

  Whitfield Diffie

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.

  Kent McCord

  College, Unrest, Reason

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• The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Block, Home, Byu

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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  Military, College, Class

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• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

  Richard Linklater

  Interesting, Gone, Able

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

  Tim Reid

  Morning, Community, Black

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• The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humorous, Science, People

  Richard P. Feynman's letter to Robert Bacher (April 6, 1950) as quoted in "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman", book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Natalie Portman

  Stars, Smart, College

  "Model of integrity" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 03, 2004.

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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• I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Natalie Portman

  Stars, Smart, College

  "Cerebral Celebs Give Up Screen for Studies". New York Post, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2002.

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Mother, School

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 07, 2015

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Distance, Classroom, University

  "I got my degree through E-mail" by Lisa Gubernick, Ebeling, www.forbes.com. June 16, 1997.

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• I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

  John Carmack

  College, Thinking, Games

  "Violent Games Reduce Aggression, Says Id Boss". IndustryGamers Interview, www.digitalspy.com. July 31, 2011.

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• It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community.

  Samuel Alito

  Smart, College, People

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

  James Van Der Beek

  Thinking, World, Way

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• Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other groups. This constant, often legitimate criticism of Israel for every one of its deviations, when coupled with the absence of legitimate criticism of others, creates the impression currently prevalent on university campuses and in the press that Israel is among the worst human rights violators in the world....it is not true, but if it is repeated often enough, it takes on a reality of its own.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Reality, Rights

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• I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.

  Scotty McCreery

  Sunday, College, Years

  "Scotty McCreery: Celebrity On Campus" by Emily Laurence, Slide 2, www.seventeen.com. August 14, 2013.

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• If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Heart, College

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Amazon Book Review Interview, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• We've been told by the people on the other side who don't like the campus sexual assault movement that these are all "he-said, she-said" cases. Quite rightly, they say campus procedures are often very flawed, the investigation methods are not that good, and we aren't sure what we can trust. [Opponents say that] it seems like a lot to call somebody a rapist if they haven't gone to a criminal trial.

  Michele Landis Dauber

  People, Opponents, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Recruiting at Iowa has never been easy, and I don't think it ever will be. Our biggest challenge has always been to get people to visit our campus. If we can get them here, I feel like we give ourselves a chance because we do have a lot to offer.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Thinking, Iowa, People

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• The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

  William Allen White

  College, World, Tomorrow

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• I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

  Andrew Solomon

  College, Self, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.660, Simon and Schuster

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• An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.

  Carolyn Hart

  Education, Dream, College

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