College Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		Maybe you think, ‘I’m not college material.’ Maybe you worry that you don’t have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gina Raimondo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Randi Weingarten
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jane McGonigal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tananarive Due
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John W. Gardner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tad Devine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor's in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Opal Tometi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Glenn Frey
			
			
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		And yet, in these old women it was as if, through the various tragedies of Mexican history, pity, the impulse to approach, and terror, the impulse to escape (as one had learned at college), having replaced it, had finally been reconciled by prudence, the conviction it is better to stay where you are.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Malcolm Lowry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our neediest students, who would not have access to college without Pell Grants, should not be further punished after enduring a natural disaster.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ric Keller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Social life was different for me in college. I didn't go to as many parties as my friends did. I didn't join a sorority because I knew I couldn't make a long-term commitment. I was constantly traveling back and forth from Silicon Valley to Austin for internships. It was hard, but it was worth it for where I wanted to go.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brit Morin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Roger Stephens