College Quotes

• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • University
  • Grades
  • Jazz pianist

• My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Home
  • English
  • Psychology

• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

  

  Art Donovan
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• I was a college student in 1989 when I participated in the demonstration at Tiananmen Square. I was one of the organizers.

  

  Li Lu
  • College

• The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.

  

  Chris Toumazou
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Path

• I didn't launch the website with any goals in mind, to be honest. I didn't know that it would have been anything other than a digital portfolio once I graduated college.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Mind
  • College
  • Goals

• I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • College
  • Balls
  • Degree

• 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.

  

  Bobby Scott
  • Opportunity
  • College

• We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Students
  • Notes
  • Backstage

• When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Study

• Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • College

• Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

  

  Michael F. Easley
  • Education
  • Challenge
  • North Carolina

• I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Career
  • Political
  • Science

• Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Lessons
  • Tutor
  • Film director

• I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.

  

  Sean Spicer
  • Business
  • American
  • Amazing

• I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

  

  George Clooney
  • Parent
  • Disappointment
  • Disappointed

• Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Easy

• The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn't understand.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Deep

• I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

  

  Carmelo Anthony
  • Done
  • College

• I went to college for four years.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • College

• Me going to college was not an option.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • College
  • Option

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