College Degree Quotes - Page 4

• I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

  Jayson Blair

  College, Men, Black

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• In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It's also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we're already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free?

  Sarah Jaffe

  College, Helping, Individual

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• I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

  Jill Biden

  Jobs, College, Years

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

  Florence King

  Education, Children, Technology

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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• In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, College, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Instead of walking like you're limping, talking yang about me
  why don't you take your monkey ass and get a college degree?

  LL Cool J

  College, Like You, Ass

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

  Curtis Jackson

  College, Degrees, Needs

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• I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.

  Debra Monroe

  Mother, College, Serious

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Father, College

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• The ticket out of the Depression was an education, a college degree. It really didn't matter if you knew anything. You just had to have the degree. My dad, up until the last two years of his life, thought he had failed miserably with me 'cause I didn't go to college. I mean, you've seen postgame interviews with the star of the game and the players always talk about how proud his parents are because he's the first guy in his family ever to attend college. I'm the first in my family not to! I'm the first of my family not to have a degree. It's thrown everybody for a loop.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dad, Mean, College

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, College, Numbers

  " Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. March 8, 2005.

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• If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Blessed, Opportunity, College

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.7, John Wiley and Sons

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