Grad Quotes - Page 3

• In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga after they did the collaboration for "Telephone." I just kind of kept going. That was quite a while ago - Beyoncé meant something very different then than she does now.

  Morgan Parker

  Writing, School, Voice

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I started treating my career as if it was a guarantee,if things get difficult and things don't work out, I'm not gonna think I have a Plan B, which is grad school, or Plan C, which is an office job. I'm just gonna have a Plan A, a Plan A 2.0, a Plan A 3.0, and that's what I'm going to do. Because entertainment and YouTube are always going to be my Plan A.

  Lilly Singh

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The Thanksgiving meal should not be treated as a grad school exam or an Olympic dive. Whatever you cook will be good enough - unless you make that Twinkie turkey stuffing we're suddenly hearing too much about.

  Mary Schmich

  School, Turkeys, Too Much

  "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.

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• The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups.

  Kevin Drum

  Pain, College, Groups

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• Humor can be a great way to lift spirits and relate with soon-to-be high school grads. Whether you're in need of a funny senior year quote for a card, your yearbook, or a gift, you can use this list of funny graduation quotes by famous leaders and comedians to get inspired. To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Senior, School, Yearbook

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• I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black.

  Mahershala Ali

  Sports, School, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.

  Harry Turtledove

  Writing, School, Fiction

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Garden, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

  John D'Agata

  School, Program, Essays

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.

  John D'Agata

  Book, School, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

  John D'Agata

  School, Figures, Frustrating

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.

  John D'Agata

  Country, School, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!

  Jill Soloway

  School, Artist, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

  Stephen Covey

  Jobs, School, Get Better

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• I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.

  Laura Kipnis

  Sex, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.

  Matt Kuchar

  Home, Lakes, East

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• Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

  Barack Obama

  People, Riding, Faces

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• Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

  Mike Teti

  Country, Wall, School

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• The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

  Craig Clevenger

  Talking, Knowing, Bored

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• Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Sides, Students, Poor

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• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  Aaron Koblin

  Summer, Beach, Hippie

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• I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

  Andy Hertzfeld

  School, Apples, Uc Berkeley

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• So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

  George Saunders

  Advice, Littles, Corny

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.17, Random House

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• The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Stress, School, Mad

  Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Jobs, School, Agency

  "Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

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