University Quotes - Page 6

• The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

  Paracelsus

  Doctors, Wife, Lessons

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• I'm a big fan of fiction film where you have a story and you have to transform that into a visual language, basically working with actors and also transforming that into how you pronounce that in the visual language of the shots, the construction of the shots and the lighting. All of that appealed to me from the beginning of my career at the university. When I graduated from the university, I wanted to deal mainly with that, with the visual aspect of the movie.

  Dror Moreh

  Careers, Fans, Fiction

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

  Robert Redford

  Kids, Artist, Years

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

  Julia Bacha

  Study, Middle, Columbia

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• Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, World, Littles

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

  Jonathan Vilma

  Miami, Study, Habit

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• In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

  Bill Gates

  School, Kids, Different

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• The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

  Bill Gates

  Teaching, Kids, Teaching Kids

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• If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.

  Richard Dawkins

  School, Thinking, Knowing

  "People say I'm strident". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Oxford, Oxford University, Hold Me

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Essentially what my campaign is about, it`s about anything, this is saying we`ve got bring that money back into the middle class and working families. We have to create jobs, we have to raise, we have to make public colleges and universities tuition free so kids in that community who are studying hard understand that some day they will be able to go to college.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, College

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• I went to McGill University, but I didn't graduate. They won't graduate me because I didn't have a degree in any one thing. I studied everything and they were like, "You studied too many things, so we can't give you a degree."

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Giving, Degrees, Graduates

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

  Joan Chen

  Summer, Couple, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.

  Chuck D

  Struggle, Moving, Alive

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Divorce, Men, Rights

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

  Sally Stanford

  Stanford University, Becoming, Dean

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• The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

  Lisa Birnbach

  School, Lines, Miami

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• They call it torture when our guys put underwear on a guy's head, stripped him naked, put an egg between his buttcheeks and made him do jumping jacks. You know, if it can't get you into a fraternity at Chico State University, it's not torture.

  Christopher Titus

  Jumping, Eggs, Guy

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

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• At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

  Iggy Pop

  Crazy, Reading, Views

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• I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

  Godfrey

  School, Illinois, Class

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• In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do you think will have the best educated work force and a competitive advantage? We must make tuition free in public colleges and universities and substantially reduce interest rates on student loans.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, College

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• Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, War, College

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• Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

  Andrew Nikiforuk

  Jobs, School, Ideas

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• We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

  David Willetts

  Running, Believe, Would Be

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