College Quotes
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We always need friends. And I think we come out of these highly social environments with university, college, wherever we were, and getting to a new city could be daunting. It can be lonely, and it's almost easier to find a date than it is to find a friend.
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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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Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.
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I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.
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My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
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I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.
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At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
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When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."
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Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.
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I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
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In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.
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When he came here, he didn't understand the level of commitment required to play soccer in college. This year his fitness level is much better, and even as well as he is playing, I think he has just scratched the surface. If he stays committed, I think he can get even better.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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When I applied to college it was openly known that women needed higher grades and test scores in order to be accepted. No one complained - it was just the way things were.
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When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.
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Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.
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My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
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I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
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I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.
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I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.
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As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.
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I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
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I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.
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The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college.
