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		I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.
	
	  Clara Mamet Clara Mamet
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		I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.
	
	  Duncan Jones Duncan Jones
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		I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.
	
	  Rachel Caine Rachel Caine
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		There are, I know (it was in our philosophy course in college), at least a hundred different reasons why some particular event takes place. So I thrashed about again trying to find some other truth and in the instant that it flashed through my head, I think I got as close to my raison d’etre as I ever have.
	
	  Elaine Dundy Elaine Dundy
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		My mom suggested studying acting in college, but I was a bit scared to choose that path because I couldn't wrap my head around the drama school audition process.
	
	  Karen Fukuhara Karen Fukuhara
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		My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.
	
	  David A. R. White David A. R. White
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		I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
	
	  Jean Hanff Korelitz Jean Hanff Korelitz
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		Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.
	
	  Ric Keller Ric Keller
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		One of my duties, this week, is to open the new Ustinov college,' he confesses, 'and while I'm delighted that Durham should honour its former chancellor this way - and I sincerely hope it continues this tradition for me - I can't help feeling that an American university would only have done so had the chancellor also handed over a substantial amount of dosh.
	
	  Bill Bryson Bill Bryson
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		When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
	
	  James Rothman James Rothman
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		Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court.
	
	  Cliff Sloan Cliff Sloan
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		I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
	
	  Chris Stapleton Chris Stapleton
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		Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.
	
	 Chaka Fattah
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		I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
	
	  Charlie Puth Charlie Puth
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		So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
	
	  Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman
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		Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.
	
	  David B. Coe David B. Coe
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		The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
	
	  Constance Baker Motley Constance Baker Motley
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		I didn't really enjoy being at college, because I was putting myself through college. We just didn't have the money. I was responsible for that, so I was constantly looking for scholarships, grants, and work-study opportunities.
	
	  Kim Hawthorne Kim Hawthorne