College Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Parker Conrad
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clyde Tombaugh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alex Trebek
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clarence Clemons
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Spencer Smith
			
			
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		A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sanford I. Weill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonah Goldberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bobby Seale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrea Seigel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stuart Appleby
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barry Privett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Burdon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonathan Ames
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
				Colson Whitehead
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eliza Coupe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonny Greenwood
			
			
				Radiohead