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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 remember saying in college that I would never do commercials."
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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 was known around the college for jamming in the lounge."
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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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"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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"One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything."
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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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"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."
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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 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 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 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'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 gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world."
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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 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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"You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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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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"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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"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."
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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 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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"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 got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly."
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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 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 educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
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"Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up."
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