"My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails."
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"Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education."
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"When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions."
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"Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you."
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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
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"To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason."
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"When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him."
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"In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though."
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"Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality."
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"The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates."
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"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."
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"This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own."
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"I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there."
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"Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM."
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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."
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"Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay."
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"You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life."
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"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
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"When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials - that's actually how I put myself through NYU and through college."
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"College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity."
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