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Dorm Quotes
Where big ideas and early risks both began.
These dorm quotes recall the small spaces where entrepreneurial ideas and early creative projects took shape during college years. See our College quotes for more on that stage of life.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, like, homework and school wasn't the thing that I was obsessing over. It was, you know, music and making music and how to like - and drum machines. And we met Rick Rubin, and Rick Rubin had a drum machine. So I would just cut school and go to his house - his dorm room.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.
- DJ
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
- Creeping
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days, I loved Facebook. I loved being able to keep tabs on hundreds of college classmates all at once, of being able to tag all my dorm mates in the photos we took on our garbage 7 megapixel cameras, of creeping on crushes, of keeping up with every person I met at a party or in a classroom without doing very much work.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college is really when it became my own. I had to get up out of that dorm room and go to church, go to mass on Sunday. That's when I took ownership of my faith.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they're supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, 'Cloud Nine.'
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they'd be there within 2 or 3 minutes.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
- Good Workout
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't need equipment of any kind to get a good workout in. In fact, you can get a good workout in the smallest of spaces, from a dorm room, to a studio apartment to a hotel room.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020