University Quotes - Page 24

• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  Laurel Clark

  Beautiful, Memories, Motherhood

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• When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

  Albert Claude

  Mean, School, Study Life

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• Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

  Stephen Colbert

  Presidential, Lists, Winner

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• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  Gail Collins

  Cutting, College, Government

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

  Ann Coulter

  Hurt, Hate, Police

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• It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

  Justin Cronin

  Long, Houston, Professors

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jobs, Skills, Different

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• I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Drama, School, Acting

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• I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Teacher, Degrees, Prophet

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• I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Two, Addiction, Abuse

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• I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

  Rachel Cusk

  Jobs, People, Concepts

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• The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Spring, Believe

  "Shakespeare over the Port". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  Angela Davis

  Country, California, Community

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• Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Exercise, Government, Academic Freedom

  Alan Dershowitz's speech in Tel Aviv, www.haaretz.com. May 12, 2010.

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• The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gay, Firsts, Theocracy

  "Stephen Hawking Endorses Iranian and Chinese Repression" by Alan Dershowitz, www.algemeiner.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

  Agyness Deyn

  Thinking, Scary, World

  "From the bland to the blonde". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2009.

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• Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

  Terry Eagleton

  Betrayal, Educational, Sick

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

  Terry Eagleton

  Philosophy, Academic Life, Training

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  School, College, Years

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• An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Sports, Atheist

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• Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Years, President

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• I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

  Paul Engle

  Illinois, Yale, Library

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• There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.

  Paul Engle

  New York, Writing, Iowa

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• Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

  Arthur Erickson

  Advocating, Courses, Fragmentation

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