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If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.
Rod Blagojevich / Former Governor Of Illinois
College
Math
Writing
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I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
John Lithgow / Actor
College
Four
Years
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We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing us by denying opportunities for others to attend college or university.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Education
Government
Boast
College
University
Free
Attend
Below
Costing
Denying
Opportunities
Scratched
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For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.
Tony Dungy / Football Player
Campus
College
Football
Football Coach
Leader
People
Program
Coach
Young People
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My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.
Keri Hilson / Singer-Songwriter
Choir
College
Southern
Yeah
Definitely
Impacted
Sang
Musically
Quartet
Sing
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All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
Taye Diggs / Theatre Actor
College
Different
Infatuation
Nicknames
Past
All My Friends
Scott
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Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?
Jim Butcher / Author
Home
College
Real
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When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.
Geena Davis / Actress
Dad
Mom
College
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I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to go back and revisit that part of my life. It did kind of make me hungry for it again.
Lily Rabe / Actress
College
Strange
Writing
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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.
Maya Angelou / Author
Education
College
Educated
Ignorance
Illiteracy
Intelligent
Mother
Professors
Said
School
Understanding
More
Go
Always
Were
Must
Intolerant
Some
Some People
Than
Unable
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College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.
Sai Baba / Saint
College
Educational
Giving
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When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
Lou Reed / Musician
Running
College
Following
Jazz
Radio
Rail
Song
Used
Village
After
Around
Played
Show
Cecil
Run
Coleman
Excursion
Taylor
Wherever
Wobbly
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For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
Lyndon B. Johnson / 36Th U.s. President
Education
College
School
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A lot of guys have played college football and were in the NFL, but for me, it made my transition a lot easier, and people say I'm one of the toughest guys in WWE. I have rugby to thank for that.
Sheamus / Professional Wrestler
College
College Football
Easier
Football
Nfl
Rugby
Wwe
Football Me People
Played
Guys
People Say
Thank
Toughest
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Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.
David Wain / Comedian
College
Media
People
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In college, my best friends were an offensive lineman, a wide receiver and defensive back. In the pros, when you leave the practice field, players go their separate ways because they are married.
Ryan Leaf / Football Player
College
Married
Offensive
Practice
Receiver
Wide
Defensive
Leave
Pros
Ways
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I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
Lacey Chabert / Actress
Choices
College
Couple
Delay
Pursue
Years
Apply
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To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
John Guare / Playwright
Coats
College
Love You
Theater
Checking
Stay
Washington
Fifties
Main
National
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When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.
Tia Mowry / Actress
College
Doctors
Real
Doctor
Occupations
Quick
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
William Hazlitt / Writer
College
London
Oxford
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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.
Norm Coleman / Former United States Senator
America
College
College Students
Financial Aid
Needs
Program
Right Thing
Aid
Grant
Pell
The Right Thing
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I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
Phil Keoghan / Television Personality
College
People
Vision
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But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.
Tim Gunn / Consultant
College
Honest
Manners
Participating
Speak
Began
Hurting
Respectfully
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I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.
John Starks / Basketball Player
Wise
College
School
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In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
David Sax /
Space
Bronx
Charging
Clown
College
Courses
Milton
Ran
Training
Waiter
Opened
Soon
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.
Andy Rooney / Writer
Home
College
Night
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I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.
E-40 / Rapper
College
Effort
Thinking
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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.
Sam Donaldson / Journalist
College
Department
Journalism
People
Radio
Thinking
Weaving
Ahead
Basket
Suppose
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Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.
Michael Sandel / Philosopher
College
Doubt
Thinking
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Before coming into college, I definitely wasn't ready to go pro. I didn't have those results that all the other players had. I didn't have the confidence in my game or myself, or things like that.
Jennifer Brady /
Confidence
College
Ready
Definitely
Pro
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While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust.
William M. Daley / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Candidates
College
Debate
Electoral College
Imperfect
Political
Republic
Robust
Variety
Campaign
Closely
Contested
Electoral
Forces
Generally
Well
Political Debate
Races
Served
Where
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My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.
Dawn French / Actress
Best Friend
Family
Girl
Best
College
Important
Phones
Most
Time Family Me
Time Best Me
Time Best Family
Me
Any
Bonded
Best Time Family
Friend
Every
Day
Each
Phone
Every Day
Best Family Time
Her
Immediately
Met
Other
The Most Important
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
Andrew Young / Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Baseball
College
Player
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When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
Philip Emeagwali /
Assignments
Classroom
College
Eight
Formal
Homework
Lectures
Receiving
Years
Enrolled
Result
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I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.
Mark Valley /
Black
College
Glasses
Years
Since
Clark
Wear
Wore
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
Nancy Allen / Film Actress
Careers
College
Musical
Musical Theater
Pursue
School
Theater
Back To School
Began
Degree
Graduated
Minute
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'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Volleyball
War
College
Trying
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You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.
William Kristol / Commentator
College
Reading
Watching Tv
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Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.
Burt Rutan / Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace
College
Crazy
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By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I wanted to be part of the American space program. And that's exactly what I did.
Carolyn Porco / Scientist
Space
College
Finished
High School
Program
School
Space Program
Wanted
Astronomer
By The Time
High
Exactly
Exactly What
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I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly follow your passions when they don't immediately make money out of the gate.
Lisa Joy /
College
Debt
Expensive
Stanford
University
Blindly
Follow
Gate
Immediately
Passions
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My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
Dean Norris / Actor
Dad
College
Harvard
Parent
Ended
Neither
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By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.
Peter Thiel / Entrepreneur
College
May
Students
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The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.
Megan Fox / Actress
Opportunity
Choices
College
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Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
Jessi Klein / Stand-Up Comic
Art
Academic
Art History
College
Degrees
Loaded
Art Work History
Central
Comedy Central
Degree
Work History Art
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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.
Michael Ironside / Actor
Art
Attractive
Canvas
College
Frightened
Protect
Would Be
Art College
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I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
Daniel J. Evans / Former Governor Of Washington
College
Community
Community College
Consuming
Retrospect
Thinking
Tax
Broad
Tax Money
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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.
David Talbot / Journalist
Change
College
Corny
Higher
Journalism
Sound
Watergate
Change World Change The World
Change The World
Increasingly
Serve
Sounds
Wake
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I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.
John Waters / Film Director
College
Paris
Texas
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When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.
Micah Perks / Fiction Writer
Art
College
Two
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