College Quotes - Page 32

• If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

  Jessica Alba

  Jobs, Struggle, Kids

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• My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

  Kenneth Arrow

  New York, Sacrifice, Cities

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• When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Balance, Building

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  Dad, Oxford, Important

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

  Sasha Alexander

  Writing, Acting, Making Money

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 10, 2001.

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• Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.

  Stuart Appleby

  Believe, Fall, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

  Stuart Appleby

  Airports, America, Australia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  Tatyana Ali

  Roommate, Campus, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

  Creed Bratton

  Fire, Iron, Nicknames

  "Questions and Answers With Creed Bratton". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I was a drama major through college.

  Creed Bratton

  Drama, Majors

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• Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

  Mike Easley

  Country, School, Challenges

  "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

  Alex Flinn

  Stars, Writing, Ambition

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• After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

  Bruce Feiler

  Japan, United States, Wanted

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• Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She's walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she's out of her mind, drunk.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Morning, Thug, Two

  "I was followed, harassed, and ambushed by Bill O’Reilly’s producer". thinkprogress.org. August 2, 2006.

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• It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, School, Opportunity

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• I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

  Rachel Dratch

  "Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock comedian Rachel Dratch on her new book and her new baby". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.

  Ree Drummond

  Black, Pumps, Los Angeles

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• I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Two, Fiction

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• I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

  Dakota Fanning

  Parent, Vision, Married

  "Dakota Fanning Single, Admits She ‘Cannot Be Bothered’ With Boys", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Spring, Winning

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• Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Attitude, Play Hard

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• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  Edie Falco

  Dog, Children, Crazy

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• After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

  Joe Flanigan

  Jobs, Banking, Graduates

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• I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

  Luis Fortuno

  Party, Students, Republican

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• But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

  Jonah Goldberg

  School, Unique, Government

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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