Dropping out of college was never the plan, but it made me eligible for the Peter Thiel Fellowship. I was the first Asian to win that grant!

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

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.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.

There is obviously going to be a transition. There is a transition with every quarterback going from college to the NFL. I'm excited for it.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

Colleges need learning, faith, and freedom. Each reinforces the others, each makes the others possible. For what are they without each other?

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

When students come to the community college, they're focused. They know what they want to do, and they have a certain amount of time to do it.

I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.

You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

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.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

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