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Quotes About University

I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while fully respecting the academic standards of the University.
~ Derek Bok
I absolutely do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we're going to lose our coach. Tom Herman loves the University of Houston. He's happy to be coaching at the University of Houston, and I think there are only a few places Tom Herman would even consider.
~ Tilman J. Fertitta
I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.
~ Daniel Tosh
When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
~ Kate Beckinsale
Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
~ Hugh Jackman
In high school, the drama program shifted to musicals, and that's not a skill set I possess, so I let sports be my outlet, and I agreed to play football in college. I was invited to play at the University of Missouri, and I played there for a year, but when all of the talented people are plucked and put in one place, it's scary; it's tough.
~ Charlie Weber
I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
~ Omari Hardwick
You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.
~ Bobby Seale
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
~ Clifford Geertz
The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.
~ Charles Vest
I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
~ Kevin Kline
It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
~ Felicity Jones
The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education.
~ Charlie Sykes
When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.
~ Darrell Hammond
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
~ James Weldon Johnson
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
~ Linus Torvalds
I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.
~ Danny Pino
In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.
~ Spencer Bachus
I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.
~ Anne Murray
As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.
~ William P. Leahy
I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.
~ Harsha Bhogle
Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.
~ Daniela Hantuchova
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'
~ Gavin Creel