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"If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population."
"The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter."
"Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now."
"It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid."
"At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience."
"I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet."
"It's always nice to get out there and kind of put Boston College on the map, because we're not one of those schools that is seen nationally by everybody."
"I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world."
"In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer."
"I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time."
"When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage."
"You have to have a patience for college."
"I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff."
"Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college."
"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley."
"College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do."
"As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through."
"I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out."
"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."
"I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels."
