Going To College Quotes - Page 3

• When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Successful, College, Kenya

  "Lupita Nyong'o" by T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

  Bo Burnham

  College, Comedy

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• When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, "You are going to college." And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Growing Up, Kids

  "The Divine Sisterhood of Jada Pinkett Smith". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. June 11, 2013.

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• 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, College, Men

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

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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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• 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, College, Done

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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

  College, People, Trying

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

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• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement and what's the song. I guess that came out of going to college, majoring in music, studying classical music, and even as a kid, being really drawn to classical music.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Kids, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Country, Teenager

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• When I was going to college, there were probably four colleges in the nation that offered a major in meteorology. I wasn't fortunate enough to be in a part of the country where that was readily accessible. I have been doing weather since I graduated from college. I feel solid about what I'm doing.

  Sam Champion

  Country, College, Weather

  "Breakfast With Champion". Interview with Jada Yuan, nymag.com.

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• Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

  Matt de la Pena

  College, Guilt, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

  Lee Daniels

  College, Black, Firsts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  The second presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• We have the beginnings of feminism starting to rear its head, where all of that got blown up. The whole point of going to college became not to find a husband - screw that! - feminism became, "You don't want anything about a man to be defining you, and you don't want your relationship to define, you! You don't want a relationship to be your happiness. You certainly don't want marriage to be the sole determining reason you live".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Husband, College, Men

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, College, People

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• Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I've grown up a lot. I've become more independent. I can talk to my parents more like friends. When I was going to college, I was still only an hour away from them.Now, after Idol and touring all over the place, I feel like I have become a lot more independent.

  Carrie Underwood

  Independent, College, Idols

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, School, Player

  "Q&A: Michael Jordan on high school and the Jordan Classic". Interview with Christopher Lawlor, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 14, 2005.

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• I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was I didn't see anybody else in my hometown going to college to give me some kind of influence or something like that you might want to think about. I didn't see any of that. Therefore I thought it was never there. What happened was that my high school coach intervened. Had he not intervened to the measure he intervened, I probably wouldn't have gone.

  Lenny Moore

  School, College, Thinking

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• After I got out of the military, I was going to college and doing everything I was supposed to do, but I was completely numb of any emotions. I remember telling my mom, "I don't want to be like this, for the rest of my life." The military enabled me to turn off my emotions, for obvious reasons. That's why we have so many guys coming back who are going through so much. They just can't reconnect.

  Travis Aaron Wade

  Mom, Military, College

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

  Alex Winston

  Girl, Kids, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact is, yes, statistically, African Americans and Latinos are getting hit harder, but it`s something that we can have real solidarity across racial lines on, to raise the minimum wage, to lower the cost of going to college, to make sure there`s real consumer protection.

  Keith Ellison

  Real, College, African American

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

  Alex Tabarrok

  College, Educated, Wells

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• Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama...or something.

  Daniel Palladino

  Girl, Jobs, College

  "Fictional character: Lorelai Gilmore". "Gilmore Girls/ Application Anxiety", October 2002.

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