College Quotes - Page 23

• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.

  Jim Rogers

  Writing, Math, Skills

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• I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

  John Corbett

  Class, Play, Acting

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• And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

  George W. Bush

  War, Moving, Kids

  www.nbcnews.com. January 16, 2007.

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• My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Training, Theatre

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• In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.

  Alec Soth

  Beautiful, Book, School

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• I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Class, Training, Formal

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• There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

  Mark Knopfler

  Country, Teacher, Kids

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• Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

  Doc Watson

  People, Plus, Traditional

  "Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Icon, Dies at 89", www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Academic, Professors

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.

  Dave Matthews

  Memories, Kids, One Day

  "Dave Matthews takes break from road, not concerts". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 20, 2011.

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• For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

  Barney Frank

  Expression, President, Hearing

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• I was the first one in my family to go to college.

  Joe Lhota

  Firsts, My Family

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• More women are graduating from college now than men.

  Mitch McConnell

  Men, Graduates, College Graduates

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• Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Textbooks, Great Depression

  Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

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• A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback.

  Mack Brown

  Years, People, Half

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• The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

  Bill Shuster

  War, Army, Years

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• I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.

  Rachel Stevens

  Fashion, Stars, Stylist

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• I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

  Michael Eisner

  Taken, School, Ideas

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

  Kristin Hannah

  Country, Fear, Children

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• Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, School, Fate

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• I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

  Sue Grafton

  Art, Humanity, Fine

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• Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Country, Keys, People

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• And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

  Rube Goldberg

  Years, Junior Year, Juniors

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