The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
~By Helen Garner ~
Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?
~By Mike Huckabee ~
I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
~By Dana Hill ~
No, I was going to college and got discovered.
~By Jay Hernandez ~
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
~By Stephen Cole Kleene ~
In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
~By Christie Hefner ~
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
~By Abraham Robinson ~
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
~By George Galloway ~
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
~By Dan Marino ~
I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.
~By Roy Romer ~
I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.
~By Rob Corddry ~
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 ~
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
~By Roger Kahn ~
I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
~By Julia Stiles ~
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.
~By David Eddings ~
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
~By Edwin Moses ~
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.
~By Holly Johnson ~
Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.
~By Lee Majors ~
I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.
~By Catherine Bell ~
Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.
~By Sue Wicks ~
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
~By Daniel Pinkwater ~
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
~By Stephen Stills ~
I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.
~By Trishelle Cannatella ~
We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.
~By Ross Martin ~
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
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 ~
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
~By Beth Henley ~
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
~By Len Wein ~
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
~By Barack Obama ~
I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
~By Chris Rock ~
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
~By Norah Jones ~
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.
~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
~By Keira Knightley ~
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
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 ~
As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
~By Alfre Woodard ~
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
~By Ric Keller ~
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 ~
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
~By Alan Shepard ~
I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.
~By Elliott Carter ~
When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
~By Elizabeth Banks ~
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.
~By Norm Coleman ~
I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
~By Les Baxter ~
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
~By Al Roker ~
I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.
~By John Belushi ~
I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.
~By Steve Albini ~
When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.
~By Sheena Easton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
~By James Hall ~
But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.
~By Shemar Moore ~
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
~By Willie Mays ~
Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.
~By Soundarya ~
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
~By Fred Allen ~
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
~By Santiago Durango ~
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
~By Mike Thompson ~
There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
~By Dante Hall ~
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
~By James W. Black ~
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
~By Lynn Swann ~
College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.
~By Lusia Strus ~
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
~By Jon Secada ~
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
~By Alexis Herman ~
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
~By Otis Blackwell ~
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
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've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
~By Gareth Gates ~
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.
~By Steve Mariucci ~
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.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
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.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
~By Mandy Moore ~
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
~By Sally Field ~
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
~By Bo Jackson ~
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.
~By Lorrie Fair ~
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
~By Billy Eckstine ~
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!
~By Martin Sheen ~
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
~By Mark Twain ~
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