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When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.
When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.
I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.
I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.
I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.
I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
I grew up in that band. Some people go to college and get a Master's. I went to My Chem academy, and I feel like I graduated with honors.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.
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.
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "
I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to pursue acting after college.
I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.
I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.
Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.
Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.
All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.
The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
You think you want to be an astronaut, and then after a while you're a geo-major for whatever reason. That's just the way it is in college.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it.
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.
In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end.
My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.
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.
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.