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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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"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 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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"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've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
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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 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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"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."
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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 can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."
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"I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge."
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"I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."
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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 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 was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
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"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."
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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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"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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"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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"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 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 went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."
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"I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly."
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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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"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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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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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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"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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"You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college."
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
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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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"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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