College Quotes - Page 27

• I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, Men, Virginia

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• I went to college for about a year in California.

  Sean William Scott

  Years, California

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Friends, Real, Taken

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Writing, Years

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

  Mira Sorvino

  Chinese, Study, Majors

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• I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

  Janet Fitch

  Senior, Teacher, Writing

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Jobs, Children, Dad

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• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, Years, Design

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• Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

  Margaret Halsey

  Education, Mean, Two

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• I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape.

  John Grisham

  Fun, Regret, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Kids, Karate, Made

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• Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Years, Play, Trying

  "Dermot Mulroney Interview INHALE; Plus Updates on EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES and LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2010.

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• I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

  Casey Kasem

  Couple, Years, Radio

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• When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

  Claire Danes

  Responsibility, Thinking, Years

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• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, Florida

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  Walter Payton

  Football, Determination, Hard Work

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• Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

  Dave Eggers

  Writing, Class, Creative

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• Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Kids, Impact

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• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  Danica McKellar

  Passion, Media, Risk

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• When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

  Chandra Wilson

  School, Winning, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  Patrick Duffy

  Dad, Years, Acting

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• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  Patrick Duffy

  Son, Done, Soap

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• I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Oxford, Gone, Done

  "Big ideas". Interview With Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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• I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

  Erin Andrews

  Football, Blast, College Football

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