University Quotes - Page 17

• I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.

  Dale Jamieson

  Religious, Home, School

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.

  Hillary Clinton

  College, Debt Free, Tuition

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

  Mitch Albom

  College, Community, Attendance

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Tanks, Research

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Ohio, Degrees, Forty

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well everyone's careers is a series of steps, but being the President of the Young Liberals or the President of a Liberal society at university is an important step in the Liberal Party in terms of being noticed and making your name known.

  George Brandis

  Party, Names, Careers

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!

  George Brandis

  Philosophy, Believe, Night

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• I bring up the (Trump University) lawsuit, because it is a lawsuit I am going to win. ... I have thousands of students who loved the school and I've been treated very unfairly in that lawsuit. I don't care if a judge is Mexican or what. What I care about is to be treated fairly.

  Donald Trump

  School, Winning, Judging

  Source: townhall.com

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• The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, Training, Way

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.

  George W. Bush

  Book, Giving, Presidential

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Important, Gone

  Source: ilga.org

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• The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.

  Judith Butler

  Cities, Trying, United States

  Source: ilga.org

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• Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, School, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Fairly apolitical. Kind of aspiring to participate in life. I'm 18-19 years old. Wanting to dive into the world and finding the world opening for me in ways that were unimaginable. I didn't sleep for the whole first year at university because it was too much going on. Too many films to see, too many concerts to go to.

  Bill Ayers

  Sleep, Years, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

  Bill Ayers

  Years, Awakening, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama. So that's kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would've said, "I don't have any politics. I'm a business person." Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.

  Bill Ayers

  Mom, Dad, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Magic Realism, People

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Organization, Growth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, President, Michigan

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will end. And I'm certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, War, Congratulations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Children, School

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.

  Noam Chomsky

  Numbers, America, People

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .

  George Stephanopoulos

  Hundred, Trump, Court

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

  Truman Capote

  Want, Semester

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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