College Quotes
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When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.
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I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
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By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
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I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.
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More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
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And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
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People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
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I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.
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I put myself through college.
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I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.
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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
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I wasn't going to play on defense in college.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
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I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
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It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
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This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?
