College Quotes - Page 17

• One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

  Mark Skousen

  Writing, Thinking, Wife

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• College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, Life Is, Complete Life

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Reason, Should, College Education

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

  Michael N. Castle

  Choices, African American, Delaware

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• I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

  Henry Kravis

  Summer, New York, Wall

  "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

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• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

  Frances O'Grady

  Years, Oxford, Luxury

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• Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Graduation, Senior, Graduates

  "Dare to disagree". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

  Bo Burnham

  Dream, Eight, Hours

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.

  Stan Van Gundy

  Team, Successful, Nba

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• By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

  Albert Maltz

  Writing, Lynching, Firsts

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• At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

  John Daniel

  Smart, Firsts, Reeds

  John Daniel (2012). “Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone”, p.136, Counterpoint

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• One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.

  Gary Reilly

  Reality, Baffled, Forget

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• We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Needs, Cost, Students

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• And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hands, Catholic

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions.

  Auren Hoffman

  Race, Important, Admission

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• I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Looks

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• It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

  Paula White

  Together, Different, Facts

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• One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

  David O. Sacks

  Years, Grandpa, Diversity

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• Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

  Ezra Klein

  Men, Practice, Everyday

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• In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Editors, Rose, Dawn

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• Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion crews. Honesty is not the best policy when leading a bunch of college rowers. They are looking for strong, disciplined leadership and not a kinder, gentler coach. Once you've established a certain attitude and demeanor, it's nearly impossible to change to a difference mode in mid-season.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Strong, Honesty, Attitude

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• I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

  Tom T. Hall

  Dirty, Writing, Naughty

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• I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

  Dan Gable

  Mean, Wrestling, Thinking

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• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Biology, Physical Education

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