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"I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start."

"The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment."

"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."

"Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?"

"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."

"Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day."

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen."

"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."

"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."

"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."

"The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that."

"I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."

"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"

"We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team."

"When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots."

"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk."
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