"When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street."
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"So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions."
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"I never went to college, so I went to the library."
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"Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more."
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"I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."
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"I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary."
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"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."
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"And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery."
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"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."
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"Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch."
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"It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation."
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"If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself."
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"I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that."
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"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
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"A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul."
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"College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em."
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"In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew."
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"When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles."
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"You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know."
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"Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes."
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