Geoff Dyer Quotes
I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.
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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.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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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.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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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.
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.
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We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries.
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I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.
