University Quotes - Page 27

• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Education, Teacher, Women

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

  Ed O'Neill

  Girl, Sports, Football

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• As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  War, Princeton University, Eras

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• I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

  Susan Orlean

  New York, Writing, Class

  "An Education" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

  Susan Orlean

  Sports, Football, School

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

  Susan Orlean

  Sports, Team, Believe

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

  Sara Paretsky

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Science, Cells

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

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• But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

  Rick Perry

  Blessing, Air, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

  Karl Pilkington

  Home, Yesterday, Challenges

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

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• I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Intellectual, Culture

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. 15 October 2011.

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• I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sympathy, Levels

  "Terry Pratchett". www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

  Dennis Prager

  Art, Europe, Ruining It

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• Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

  Dennis Prager

  Selfish, Media, People

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• Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

  Dennis Prager

  School, College, Perspective

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• On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

  Carroll Quigley

  New York, Practice, London

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• Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

  Tony Randall

  Theatre, These Days, Very Good

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• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Country, Art, Jobs

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  Eric Ries

  Country, Jobs, America

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• Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  School, Scientist, Mainstream

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• I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Design Work, Knowing, Boards

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• I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

  George A. Romero

  Zombie, Easy, Neighbor

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• I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.

  Saoirse Ronan

  New York, Study, Born

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• Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

  Salman Rushdie

  Journey, Long, Mumbai

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• Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, College, Oxford

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.215, Рипол Классик

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