University Quotes - Page 5

• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wine, Victory, Defeat

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• You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Daughter, Son, Worry

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• It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Atheist, Jobs

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• Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.

  Jane Brody

  Baby, Communication, School

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• Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'

  Halford Luccock

  Men, Years, Who Cares

  Halford Edward Luccock (1956). “Unfinished Business: Short Diversions on Religious Themes”

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• The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

  Vartan Gregorian

  House, Library, Graduates

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• If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

  Hermann Broch

  Rome, Ideas, Age

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• There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Men, Boards

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.188, Library of America

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• I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and got straight into film music. So really my experiences have been being around the orchestras in London and being around the people who work in film music.

  Steven Price

  College, People, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

  Yasmin Paige

  Queens, East London, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I like the idea of going to university and studying. I didn't do it because it was a back-up plan. In some ways, it kind of goes hand in hand with acting. There's a lot of analysis and enriching your mind, as well as problem solving. And it can only help being around people as an actor.

  Yasmin Paige

  Hands, Ideas, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.

  Yasmin Paige

  Intelligent, People, Young

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

  Yasmin Paige

  Challenges, Different, Tvs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

  Marcel Dzama

  Ceramics, Film, Figures

  "Marcel Dzama’s Grandmaster Games". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 8, 2014.

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• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  Bill Ackman

  Opportunity, University Degrees, Scams

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• In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Egypt, President

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• Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.

  Sally Jenkins

  Sports, Running, College

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.

  William C. Rhoden

  Football, Jobs, Moving

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• One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event, there's a senior or a junior from WAER broadcasting sports just the way we did, and just the way it happened a couple generations before us. That's a great legacy for the university and a great tradition that still continues to this day, and makes those of us who were a small part of it very very proud.

  Mike Tirico

  Senior, Sports, Couple

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• The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of the social sciences, and only textbooks supporting their ideas are used.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

  David Horowitz

  Research, Fields, Modern

  David Horowitz (2013). “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America”, p.1916, Regnery Publishing

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• Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”

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• We must never forget that BYU is not just another "good" university. It was established by the Lord's servants and continues to be blessed with the direction and support of prophets, seers, and revelators. While we may not understand all of the details, we do know that Brigham Young University occupies a key place in the Lord's plans for the completion of His work in these last days.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Blessed, Byu, Keys

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