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College Quotes


"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"


"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."


"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."


"It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan."


"The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway."


"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."


"I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942."


"But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher."


"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."


"I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently."


"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."


"I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s."


"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."


"When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur."


"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."


"I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college."


"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."


"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."



"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."


"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."


"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."


"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"


"I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."


"I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands."


"I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."


"The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations."


"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."


"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."


"The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment."


"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."


"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."


"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."


"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."


"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."


"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."


"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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