Walter Becker Quotes
You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
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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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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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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.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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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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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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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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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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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.
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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 could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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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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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
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Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
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Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.
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You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
