College Quotes - Page 36

• If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

  Jacob Lew

  Jobs, Able, Students

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• I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.

  Guy Oseary

  Years, People, Missing

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• Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

  Amanda Plummer

  Stories, Records, Rooms

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

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• I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

  Bill Parcells

  Fighting, Windmills

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• I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, People, Way

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• I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

  Jim Parsons

  Class, Age, Meteorology

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

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• In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Teacher, Too Much, Comedy

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.

  Pauley Perrette

  Senior, School, Care

  "_NCIS___' Tattooed Abby Defies Stereotypes__". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.tvguide.com. December 4, 2007.

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• I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

  Tom Perrotta

  Summer, Men, Yale

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• I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

  Tom Perrotta

  Reading, Ideas, Rapture

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• Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

  Chance the Rapper

  Jobs, School, Government

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• I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

  David Rubenstein

  Letters, Students, Columbia

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• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Religious, Rights, America

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

  Giuliana Rancic

  School, Gears, Students

  "Giuliana Rancic Interview". www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

  Kim Raver

  Makeup, Hair, Class

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

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• I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

  Martin Ryle

  Oxford, Educated

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• I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Girl, Writing, School

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

  Rene Redzepi

  Book, Public Speaking, Catering

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

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• But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

  Roy Romer

  Educational, Years, Four

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• You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Kids, School

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• I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Jobs, Three, Students

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• After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

  Lara Spencer

  Kids, Nbc, Feet

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• I was an English major in college!

  Maggie Siff

  English Major, Majors

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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, Years, Acting

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  School, Vienna, Seven

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