University Quotes - Page 26

• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  Quincy Jones

  Home, Writing, Dry

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 1995.

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• University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Education, Witty, Powerful

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• Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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• Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Wall, Character, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Teaching, School

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• Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

  Charles Kuralt

  Retirement, School, Trying

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• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Father, Grateful

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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• I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Sleep, Organization

  "Philip Larkin's Everyday Poetry" by Henry Allen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 1989.

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• The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Wine, Beer

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• I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Good Friend, Views, California

  "The Way Things Ought to Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, p. 193, 1992.

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• The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Levels, Way, Public Education

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• My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Dad, School

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• One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

  Lisa Loeb

  Expectations, Musician, Come Up

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• I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Plato, Intellectual, Sausage

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

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• In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Black, Faculty

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.48, Crossing Press

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• I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "The Force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. Jun 29, 2010.

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• I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

  John Lydon

  Fun, University Students, Parent

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• Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

  H. L. Mencken

  College, Damage, Might

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• Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Space, Able, Enough

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• When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

  Moby

  Art, Philosophy, School

  "Trouble still comes easy for Moby". Interview With Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2008.

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• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Different, Scholarship, Paid

  "Viggo Mortensen interview: 'If I think a film's beyond me - that's a good sign'". Interview with Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2013.

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• When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

  Mike Myers

  Art, School, Film

  "Toronto: Fleming Q&A’s Mike Myers On ‘Supermensch’ Directorial Debut". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

  Liam Neeson

  Art, Queens, Flags

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• I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

  Liam Neeson

  Pie, Dry, Littles

  "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

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• At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

  David Nicholls

  Silly, Writing, Fiction

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