Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
~By Dora Russell ~
I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
~By Laura San Giacomo ~
Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
~By Leo Durocher ~
We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
~By Arthur Capper ~
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
~By Jack Kingston ~
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.
~By Chris Kirkpatrick ~
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
~By Michele Bachmann ~
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
~By James Earl Jones ~
But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
~By Jim Coleman ~
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
~By Will Rogers ~
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
~By Dean Smith ~
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.
~By Rob Corddry ~
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
~By James Stewart ~
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
~By John Ciardi ~
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
~By William Standish Knowles ~
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
~By Claire Danes ~
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
~By Bob Dylan ~
It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.
~By Bo Jackson ~
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.
~By Marc Maron ~
I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
~By Spike Lee ~
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
~By Ron Wood ~
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
~By Dana Hill ~
I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
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.
~By James Welch ~
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
~By Martha Reeves ~
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
~By Sidney Altman ~
I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.
~By Carrot Top ~
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
~By Barnaby C. Keeney ~
While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.
~By Donna Rice ~
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
~By Amartya Sen ~
The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.
~By Norm Coleman ~
I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
~By Justin Bieber ~
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
~By James Green Somerville ~
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
~By David Talbot ~
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
~By Al McGuire ~
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
~By Roy Romer ~
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
~By David McCullough ~
Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.
~By Jonathan Richman ~
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
~By Andrea Mitchell ~
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
~By Dave Barry ~
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
~By Dennis Prager ~
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
~By Bobby Knight ~
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
~By Ric Keller ~
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
~By William P. Leahy ~
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
~By Ken Buck ~
At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.
~By Markus Wolf ~
The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
~By Bill Shuster ~
I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.
~By Tom Glazer ~
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
~By Art Linkletter ~
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.
~By George Thorogood ~
I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
~By Chris Matthews ~
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
~By Michael Ironside ~
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
~By John Gardner ~
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
~By Terri Windling ~
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.
~By Rebecca Lobo ~
College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
~By Jerry Kramer ~
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
~By John E. Walker ~
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
~By Virginia Gildersleeve ~
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
~By Loni Anderson ~
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
~By Lou Henry Hoover ~
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
~By Rick Pitino ~
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
~By Bill Cartwright ~
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.
~By Danny Pintauro ~
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
~By Jane Haddam ~
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
~By Judith Krantz ~
Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.
~By Matthew McGrory ~
I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.
~By Cheryl Lynn ~
According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.
~By Rick Perry ~
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