College Quotes - Page 35

• My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Dad, Parent, Band

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

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• I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Years, Training

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• I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.

  Mojo Nixon

  Ohio, Colorado, Kind

  Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.

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• When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Children, Political, Students

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• I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Medical, Graduates, Qualified

  "Taslima Nasrin and the Struggle Against Religious Fundamentalism". Interview with ISIS, taslimanasrin.com.

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• When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

  Chris Ofili

  Looks, Want, Royal

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• I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  School, America, Indiana

  "Five Questions with Hollywood Rookie Dayo Okeniyi on 'The Hunger Games'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

  Dylan O'Brien

  School, Class, Community

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Interest, Particular, Recalls

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• Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

  Larisa Oleynik

  People, Trying, Way

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

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• Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

  Kevin Powers

  Memories, Powerful, School

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• In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

  Marisha Pessl

  Army, Political, Black

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Rights, Government, Democracy

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• College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

  Randy Newman

  Education, Men, Dumb

  "Rock cake" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

  LL Cool J

  Education, Book, Gains

  Song: The Power of God, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

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• If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

  Coolio

  Education, Graduates, Idiot

  Song: The Winner

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• The source is knowledge. Wanna go to college, or wanna be garbage?

  Big Daddy Kane

  Education, Garbage, Source

  Song: Rap Summary

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• They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, Trying, Want

  Song: Pencil-thin mustache, 1974

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• When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, Degrees, College Degree

  Song: We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About, Album: One Particular Harbour, 1983

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• It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

  Steve Pavlina

  Funny, Jobs, Mean

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• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  Aaron Levie

  Moving, Two, Years

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• I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

  Derek Luke

  School, Cities, Jersey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

  Donal Logue

  Senior, Football, Running

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

  Dylan Lauren

  Thinking, Aqua, Becoming

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• Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

  Eric Liu

  Class, Creating, America

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