College Quotes
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In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
Betsy Brandt -
VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
Frances Beinecke
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Donna Shalala -
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I wasn't the most confident kid in school and college.
Kriti Sanon -
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
Bobby Scott -
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
Derek Bok
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'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home.
Kenya Barris -
His complexion exceeding faire – he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.
John Aubrey -
My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.
Marshawn Lynch -
I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.
Earl Campbell -
I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
Dakota Fanning -
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
Sally Ride
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I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.
Dylan Penn -
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
Vijay Mallya -
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
Alexandra Patsavas -
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
Anthony Hopkins -
One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
Bruce Eric Kaplan -
If you have less games, less back-to-backs, the product's better. The fans will appreciate it more. You see those college guys playing so hard, but they play 36 games in the same amount of time we play 82 almost.
Blake Griffin
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
Yuri Kochiyama -
I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.
David Henry Hwang -
When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
J. K. Simmons -
Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.
Donna Brazile