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“I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didnt finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.”

Years College Producers Silver Drivers Frozen Halfway Yogurt

Author:Greg Grunberg

“I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.”

Years Jobs Used College Husband Fellows University Used To Be My Husband Realised Gave Up Lecturer Lucy Yorkshire Leeds Commoners

Author:Sophie Hannah

“you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.”

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

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Author:Tucker Max

“This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.”

“I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.”

Years School Sports Youth College Couple High School Ran Camps Youth Sports Daycare

Author:Derek Theler

“I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.”

Years Shows Wanted Moving Acting Careers College Projects Encouragement Finals University Profession Pursuit Pursue Professors One Woman Sophomore Sophomore Year Deacons

Author:April Parker Jones

“I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.”

People Years School Three Literature College Grew Grew Up Odd Three Years Graduates Harvard Yale Graduate School Comparative Literature

Author:Lev Grossman

“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.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.”

“And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.”

“Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.”

Years Stills Play Wanted Sports College Offers Basketball Baseball Accepted Senior Best Sports Senior Year

Author:Joe Namath

“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.”

Years Doe Art States Enough Running School Stuff Class Four College Lucky Photography Tests Grades Four Years Grey Hippie Art School Blah

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.”

Years Firsts Dream Born College My Family Raised Our Family Farms Graduates American Dream Born And Raised

Author:Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.”

Years Enough Dream Community Support College Threshold Community College Dream Act

Author:Michael Baumgartner

“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.”

Writing Years Art Found College Fine Majors Art Is Painter Fine Arts

Author:Kami Garcia

“The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.”

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Author:John Raese

“Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

“It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen.”

Thinking Years Persons Happens Kids Football College Becoming Miracle Nfl Scholarship Basements Going To College Becoming The Best Gpa

Book:I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

Source: I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

“It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.”

Years Christian Lasts Religious Interesting Four College Ten Notes Addresses Warning Farewell Textbooks Minus Farewell Address

Author:David Barton

“A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.”

“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.”

People Years College Vote Freshman

Author:Woody Harrelson

“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.”

Years Persons Has Beens Soul Ends Happens Young Courses Process Four Teaching Changed College Adults Young Adult Agents Four Years College Education

Author:Leroy S Rouner

“Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.”

Years Firsts Two Community College Willing Two Years Community College

Author:Barack Obama

“We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.”

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Author:Mehcad Brooks

“I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.”

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Author:John Lithgow

“A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.”

“Other than a few years of piano as a kid, I don't have all that much musical training. I played piano for all the musicals in high school and was in a few bands, but never really considered music as a viable career until I was in college.”

Years Kids School Careers College Band Training High School Musical Piano

Author:John Keltonic

“I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.”

Years Stills Felt Careers Four Rocks Missing College Band Europe Moved Ships Four Years Ireland Rock Bands Indie Rock

Author:Bill Watterson

“Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy, makes you earn more as an adult, makes you more likely to have a stable family situation, be married, for instance, when you're an adult.”

Years Situation Environment College Married Adults Instance Extras Pregnancy Stable Teenage Being Married Teenage Pregnancy

Author:Raj Chetty

“I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.”

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Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.”

Years Hard Kids Wanted Challenges Class Students College University Beast Relentless Indiana Freshman Sophomore Mba Sophomore Year

Author:Mark Cuban

“There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.”

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Author:Stephen King

“I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.”

Years Ideas Helping Wanted Parent Four College Months Decided No Idea Help Me Four Years Reeds

Author:Steve Jobs

“Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!”

Years Humor Funny Hell Written College Sick Notes Take Me Mum Seventies Take Me Back

Author:Bob Monkhouse

“I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.”

People Years Ideas Hands Faces Forever College Ridiculous Teenager Reunited College Years

Author:Barry Ptolemy

“I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.”

Years Hard Would Be Kids Wanted Guy Levels College Hard Work Late League Senior Stopping Senior Year Never Stopping

Author:Kevin Martin

“I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!”

“Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.”

Years Firsts School College High School Yeah University Productions Posters Scenery Small Parts Maryland

Author:Jim Henson

“I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.”

Years Christian Parent Understanding Church College Raised Baptized Good Understanding

Author:Lance Berkman

“After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.”

Years Wanted School Felt Half College Waste High School University Wasting Time Nebraska After High School

Author:Evan Williams

“I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.”

Thinking Years Long Enough Whole Hands Wanted Jobs Three Felt Pay Company College Long Time Mouths Bills Theatre Employment Three Years Cash Frustrated Gigs

Author:Bill Bailey

“Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.”

Writing Years Wanted Creative College Decided Grades Composer Composition Creative Writing Eighth Grade

Author:Joanna Newsom

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