- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
College Quotes
Campus memories, good and bad.
This college quotes page includes fond memories of campus theatre and teaching, alongside blunt admissions of having hated school. See our College Life quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.
- Major
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a drama major through college.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
- Character Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.
- Pianist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
- Lottery
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court.
- Crime Rate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020