Pete McCloskey Quotes

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

Pete McCloskey

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• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• 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

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• 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 went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • School
  • High
  • College

• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• 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

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • College
  • Play
  • Style

• 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

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • College
  • Win
  • Three

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Environment

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Environment

• I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.

  

  Nina Menkes
  • Feminist
  • Filmmaker
  • Expressing

• It's extremely important for my sit ski to be perfectly fit to me. If it's too big, and I shift around, the energy and strength I put into propelling myself forward will be lost. The right fit is everything in my sport.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Lost

• There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

  

  Pete McCloskey
  • College
  • Environment