College Quotes
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I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.'
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According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.
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I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
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Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.
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You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.
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Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
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I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.
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The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
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Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.
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I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.
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I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
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It's unfair to those kids who don't get to take those good courses and don't get the chance to go to college...
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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.
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Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.
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I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.
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There was a little bit of hesitancy about staying in Pittsburgh and not moving away for college, but that didn't last long. It was right in line with what I wanted, so I auditioned there and it wasn't a tough decision.
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I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, 'Mark, where're you going to college?' and I'd just lie 'cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor.
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I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses.
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I don't think our pro offense would work at the college level.
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I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.
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I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
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“Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.”
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I had never seen a computer when I went to college.
