“I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.” KnowsWayYearsHardFallSidesActingFiveCollegeCommittedQuittingFive YearsDoveI QuitGo Hard Author:Sonja Sohn
“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.” YearsNextPresidentFiveCollegePressesMeetingsSeriesFive YearsLos AngelesBostonMinnesotaYears Of Experience Author:Billy Graham
“College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.” YearsTodayEconomyFiveCollegeCostPercentScalesExpensive Author:Gerald Chertavian
“I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.” WantedSchoolGuyFiveTeamCollegeProveSixHigh SchoolComing OutLineman Author:Ndamukong Suh
“It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.” YearsLongNextDifferencesFiveFourCuttingCollegeOne DayMajorsComplainingFive Years Author:Robert Griffin III
“If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.” IfsFiveCollegeScaryClockAfternoon Author:Benjamin Jowett
“I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolRememberFiveMinutesCollegeTenHigh SchoolLet MeTwentiesSermonsFive MinutesTwenty FivePresbyterians Author:Woody Harrelson
“Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.” DoeSchoolUsedEnergyHoursFiveCollegeExerciseShapesHigh SchoolBuiltTrackUsed To BeRanStayingWorkoutSkinnyGymnasticsPilatesSteroidCheerleading Author:Eva Longoria
“In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.” ShouldMindMadePlayMomentsBlackRolesFiveComedyCollegeSixMercyMalesThat MomentShould IRejectedPompousTurtlenecksYay Author:Emo Philips
“When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.” PeopleWorldGrowsMillionsFiveSawsStudentsCollegeThousandBillionsEvolveEmployeeUsersCollege Students Author:Ruchi Sanghvi
“In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.” YearsFiveCollegeTheaterMovedFive YearsSan FranciscoMeds Author:Mark Waters
“Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.” PeopleKnowsResultsCitiesFiveYouthCollegeIndustryEntertainmentCracksLots Of MoneyBusinessmanUsageEntertainment IndustryInner City Author:Questlove
“If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsWellsLooksLongIdeasTalkingFivePlansCollegeNo IdeaRangeFive YearsAttributesFridayFive Year PlansPlans In Life Author:Michael Wilbon
“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.” MenFeelsYearsChildrenDifferentAgeMotherCultureThreeFatherParentFiveFourCollegeMarriedMajorsOur ChildrenSevenFive YearsDivorcedElevenAnthropologyEighteenDifferent Cultures Author:Lily King
“I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.” ThinkingYearsMadeBreakGoneTakenFiveCollegeMemorableBurn OutMemorable Movie Author:Jodie Foster
“There has to be some more regulation. But our kids have this incredible buffet of they can work in genomics, they can work in pre-omics, or they can work in robotics, or they can work in this, or they can work in that. And within the next five years there will be entirely new industries that come out of nowhere that kids are working in that would have been inconceivable when they started college. Not when we started college.” YearsHas BeensKidsNextFiveCollegeIndustryIncrediblesFive YearsRegulationRoboticsBuffetsGenomics Author:Juan Enriquez
“I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere.” PeopleFeelsTryingMindChildrenStatesProcessLosesUnitedUnited StatesFiveCollegeProveStressInsanityElsewhereInherentParentalGood College Author:Tina Fey
“It was a very excellent day over there at HBO/Cinemax when they bought 'Powers' . I felt like I graduated television college, because they make amazing television. The person who said yes to Veep said yes to us, which made me feel very good about myself for five seconds. Which my self-loathing doesn't usually allow me to feel. Even I could not say that that wasn't a fun day.” FeelsPersonsMadeSaidSelfFunFeltFiveTelevisionCollegeVery GoodExcellentSecondsLoathingSelf LoathingHboFun Day Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“We need more good jobs, and that means we've got to start educating young people, starting literally in the first five years of life making sure that every kid in every zip code has good teachers and good schools, making college affordable, helping people pay down their debt.” PeopleNeedsYearsFirstsMeanHelpingKidsSchoolJobsYoungPayFiveTeacherCollegeStartingDebtCodeFive YearsGood JobHelping PeopleAffordableGood TeacherZipsYears Of LifeGood School Author:Hillary Clinton
“We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryFactsMightKidsSchoolYoungPurposeThreeParentGoneFiveGroupsCollegeReadyGrewGrew UpPracticalsThreatenedPaperwork Author:Barack Obama
“There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus 65% female. It used to be just the exact opposite. There's a reason.” ReasonUsedFiveCollegeMajorsPercentFemaleOppositesMalesUniversityUsed To BeReason WhyThirtyVersusEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh