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Quotes About College

Show business comes with wonderfully long vacations, like the life of a college professor.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
~ Marta Kristen
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
~ Steve Martin
Mandatory stints in the private economy before college enrollment could do wonders for study skills.
~ Heather Mac Donald
I think most people don't even know what 'woo pig sooie' is if they're not a sports fan or they're not from Arkansas.
~ Matt Besser
There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.
~ Charles Duhigg
I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
I've grown up in Mumbai, did college from Mumbai, many colleges, actually - Jai Hind, Ruia, Andrews, Wilson, Whistling Woods... Then I worked as a production assistant with Prahlad Kakar, and then I started acting.
~ Prateik Babbar
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
~ Josh Radnor
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
~ John Rocha
I have no problem with Gerrit. We had a rocky relationship in college, because he told me that I had no future in baseball and he insulted my work ethic as a freshman. I don't take kindly to those couple things, so we had our issues. And I have, I don't know, those feelings have long since faded.
~ Trevor Bauer
Other comedians got love for me. But don't get it twisted - I'm not a clown, I'm a comedian and work hard as an artist. Clowns go to college.
~ Charlie Murphy
I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.
~ Jeff Ament
I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
~ Chris Stapleton
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.
~ Wil Wheaton
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.
~ Dianne Feinstein
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
~ Wilma Rudolph
Of our seven children, five are at ABC Supply. The three older daughters went to college. The boys went into construction, and I wasn't disappointed they didn't go to college.
~ Diane Hendricks
I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.
~ Louise Wilson
The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
~ Michael Baumgartner
I didn't get to go to school functions growing up. I didn't get to go to dances. I was never invited to a party ever. Until I got to college and threw a party, I had never even been to one.
~ Chael Sonnen
I threw a lot of fastballs in college.
~ Drew Pomeranz
I represent college football and have been doing it for 26 years. It's a great thrill.
~ Lee Corso