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College Quotes
"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
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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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"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 was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan."
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
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"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."
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"The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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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'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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"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."
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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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"Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up."
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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
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"I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials."
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"In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964."
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"I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942."
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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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"While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor."
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"When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur."
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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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"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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"You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college."
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"I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses."
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"Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands."
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"I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester."
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"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."
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"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."
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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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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise."
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"I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting."
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"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."
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"I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college."
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"I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think."
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