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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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"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 went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."
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"Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world."
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"One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything."
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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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"I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials."
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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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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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"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."
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"I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge."
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"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."
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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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"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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"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."
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"I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college."
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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 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 went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."
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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."
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"I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway."
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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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"And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions."
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"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
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"Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals."
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"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."
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"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
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"It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?"
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"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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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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"I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest."
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"Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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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 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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