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College Quotes
"A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000."
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"He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention."
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"I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world."
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"Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent."
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"I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961."
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"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
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"I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef."
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"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
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"But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher."
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"I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."
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"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
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"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."
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"I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner."
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"I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."
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"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
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"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge."
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"I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did."
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"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school."
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"I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college."
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"I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials."
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"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."
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"Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school."
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"I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these."
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"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."
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"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."
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"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."
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"I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."
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"A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place."
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"A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House."
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"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
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"I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently."
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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."
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"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."
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