Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

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• When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Time
  • College
  • Search

• When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Knowledge
  • College
  • Kid

• I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • College
  • Politics
  • Identity

• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • College
  • Arts
  • Golden

• I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Home
  • College

• I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Art
  • College
  • Training

• We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Kids
  • College
  • Accept

• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Home
  • College
  • Statistics

• I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • College

• At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

  

  Bernice King
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Yourself
  • Selfish
  • Camera

• Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Music
  • Think
  • Made

• The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Work
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • College