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College Quotes
"A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000."
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"I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge."
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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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"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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"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 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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"The preparation I had in college was the most valuable."
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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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"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 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 was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."
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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 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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"I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world."
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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 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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"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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"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 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."
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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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"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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"And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions."
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"A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone."
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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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