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Mike Murray Artist
College

"We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new Bournville College shape Birmingham's learning environment, it will also form the first phase of the new Longbridge town centre and, therefore, represents a milestone in a new future for Longbridge."

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J. Cole Rapper, songwriter
College

"When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping."

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Lee Terry Politician
College

"That's all that it's going to be. God bless them. But you know what? I've got a nice house and a kid in college, and I'll tell you, we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
College

"Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning."

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Audrey Hepburn Actress, Humanitarian
College

"There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?"

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Tatyana Ali Actress, Singer
College

"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
College

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
College

"I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills."

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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
College

"Like Ice Cube asks, "Why are more niggers in the pen than in college?" It's easier to go to the pen than it is to go to college."

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Ray Bradbury Author
College

"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."

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