Campus Quotes - Page 8

• It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Growing Up, Interesting

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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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• Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, College

  D. James Kennedy (1997). “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It”, Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing

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• I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates that we can walk with our eyes wide open straight into sheer destruction if there is a profit on the way-and that seems to me to be what we are doing now. I have no great expectation that human cussedness will somehow be quickly modified and turned into generosity or that humanity's care of the earth will improve much. But I do go around planting trees on the campus.

  Joseph Sittler

  Believe, Eye, Generosity

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• On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Speak, Hunger

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• In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus.

  Chuck Green

  Years, Iowa, Safe

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• Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

  Camille Paglia

  Running, Strong Women, Daddy

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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• When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the association. It was kind of an instant confidence builder for me--that what I considered the best fraternity on campus had actually wanted me. And I had always been very shy and without a lot of confidence. So it was a really good social experience and for me it was also a social maturation. It was a great benefit.

  David Letterman

  Shy, Benefits, Proud

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• I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Taken, Journey, Years

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• Campus ... brings back so many memories that I would ... have made.

  Michael Scott

  Memories, Made

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• I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.

  Dan Povenmire

  Years, Guy, Trying

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, College, Ideas

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

  John Lithgow

  Stars, Laughter, Teenager

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

  Steven Holl

  Unique, Opportunity, Princeton University

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• At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Gay, Taste, Kind

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

  Anant Agarwal

  Real, Believe, Moving

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• One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Running, College, Years

  "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955.

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• If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable.

  Benjamin Carson

  Kids, Police, Littles

  "Ben Carson 'Much More Comfortable' If Kindergarten Teachers Had Guns" by Katherine Faulders, abcnews.go.com. October 6, 2015.

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• If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

  Talib Kweli

  College, Drug, Stop And Frisk

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Self Esteem, College, Men

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• Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.

  Dean Spade

  Reading, Writing, School

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  Garrison Keillor

  Editors, People, Shy

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• Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

  Camille Paglia

  Book, Parent, Enlightenment

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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• [T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

  Camille Paglia

  Media, Feminist, Humanity

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• ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

  Evan Wright

  Country, Military, Ivy

  Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.23, Penguin

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