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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
College

"Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce."

School Business College
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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
College

"I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950."

Years College Boston
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
College

"What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash."

College Expression Fate
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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
College

"I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time."

Firsts College Travel
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
College

"Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse."

Writing College Retirement
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Savannah Guthrie Journalist
College

"When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes."

Mom Couple College
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
College

"The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it."

Writing School College
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Rich Sommer Actor
College

"In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times."

Way College Rotation
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
College

"You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own."

Exercise College Momentum
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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
College

"There's certain classes you have to take, certain things you have to do, certain money you must have. Then, if you listen to the counselors and social workers and everybody else talking at you, you would think that once you got out of high school and college, life would be beautiful. But it's not."

School Beautiful College
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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
College

"I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out."

Ideas Class College
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Russell Westbrook Professional Basketball Player
College

"In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure."

Class College Dresses
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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
College

"Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day."

Men Boys College
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Harper Lee Novelist
College

"There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court."

Country Stupid College
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Keith Ellison Politician
College

"I know that everybody who supported Bernie Sanders supported him because they believe that college debt is too high. They believe that the minimum wage needs to be increased. They believe that we have to take on climate action."

Believe College Climate Action
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Grant Hill Basketball Player
College

"The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA."

Basketball College Nba
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