College Quotes
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Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.
Matthew Desmond
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
C. V. Raman
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I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.
William A. Henry III
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You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
Dora Russell
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I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.
Zach Parise
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My major in college was speech therapy, but to do what I wanted I would have to go on and get my Master's Degree. I figured I needed a change of pace.
Cheryl Lynn
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What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
William P. Leahy
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Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.
Mackenzie Davis
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College was the greatest four years of my life.
Jennie Finch
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I love college life.
Lil' Romeo
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Just because you're in college, or a university student, that does not mean you're the only thing you are.
Ann Makosinski
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Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
Jonathan Raban
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I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
Len Wein
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Harvey and I grew up in Queens, N.Y. My brother and I shared a room for 18 years until we went away to college. When we were kids, after our father said, 'Lights out,' he also exclaimed, 'No more talking. Time for sleep.' But we'd stay up late, arguing over statistics, who the best center fielder was - Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle.
Bob Weinstein
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We need to incentivize states across our country to spend on higher education and ensure that we go back to allowing people to go to college tuition-free.
Pramila Jayapal
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Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.
Billy Crystal
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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
Peter Coyote
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
L. Frank Baum
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I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
Wendy Liebman
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Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
Eric Betzig
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Chris Kirkpatrick and I were in college in choir together; we sang at our community college. I'm partially the reason why Chris even got into being in a boy band with NSYNC.
Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
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College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
Noel Gallagher Oasis