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“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

“My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word dinosaur. You're not supposed to be getting tenure. You're supposed to be figuring out how you can teach more students at a better price and more effectively. That's your job.”

Jobs Father Teach Students University Supposed To Be Professors Dinosaurs Tenure University Professors

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.”

Whole Kids Wanted Jobs Actors My Own Acting Responsibility Creativity University I Realized Whole Life Quitting Depressing Taking Responsibility I Quit Really Depressing

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.”

Wells States Government Church Known Support Acceptance College Taxes University Ancient Aids Related Well Known Axioms Colleges And Universities

Book:Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid

Source: Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid

“Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.”

People Giving Running Company Giving Up Towns Including University Debate Atmosphere Never Giving Up Seething

Author:George P. Shultz

“If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.”

Ifs Needs Helping Ten University

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.”

Art Degrees Majors University Fortunate Canada Minors Programmes Liberal Arts Arts Degrees

Author:O.R. Melling

“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.”

Men Problem Hands Age Cutting Violence Authority Errors University Solve Mathematical Executives Illegal Combat Diamond Knots Proceeding Mathematical Problems

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.”

Jobs Lost Car Students Broken Window Towns University Tea Broke Peanuts Peanut Butter Broken Down University Students

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.”

Should College Resources University Pursuit Academic

Author:Howard Zinn

“I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.”

Thinking Kind School Literature Left Wish Decision Gone University Knack English Literature

Author:Brendan Coyle

“I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.”

Years Bigs Cat Hot University Roof Mama Michigan Tin Cat On A Hot Tin Roof University Of Michigan Big Mama

Author:Margo Martindale

“Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.”

People Firsts Real Running School Students High School Organization Theater Originals University Casts Performing Vanderbilt

Author:Nancy Allen

“My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.”

Wells Age Young Parent Achieve Huge Mark Pressure Raised University Keep Going My Sister Emphasis Young Age Attorney

Author:David Schwimmer

“I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.”

“That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.”

Years Firsts Art Courses Painting University Visuals Broads Sculpture Visual Art Lancaster

Author:Andy Serkis

“No state legislature ever built a great university.”

States Built University Legislature State Legislatures

Author:James E. Rogers, Jr.

“There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.”

Ifs Certain Fool Training University Folly Stamps You Like It

Author:William Gerhardie

“The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.”

Lasts Education University Platforms Dissent

Author:Leon Eisenberg

“I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.”

Years Philosophy Film Study Saws Rocks Economics University Fantastic Australian Picnics Retrospective Australian Films Gallipoli Studying Economics

Author:Deborah Kara Unger

“I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!”

Doctors Medicine University Saved Live By

Author:Zubin Mehta

“I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.”

Trying Humor Political Accepting Happened Students College University Convince Rejects Political Humor Labeling College Students Tenants

Author:George W. Bush

“Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.”

Today Given Levels Education Achieve Higher Diversity India University Village Institute Impart Higher Education Vastness Institutes Global Village

Author:Narendra Modi

“We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.”

Ifs Knows World Want Humans Made Helping Education Know How Shapes India University Sentiments Humankind Robots

Author:Narendra Modi

“Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that of ancient philosophy. In modern university philosophy, philosophy is obviously no longer a way of life, or a form of life - unless it be the form of life of a professor of philosophy.”

Way Different Philosophy Form Environment Modern Philosophical University Ancient Atmosphere Professors Discourse Ancient Philosophy

Author:Pierre Hadot

“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.”

“My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.”

Should Done Mother Force Gone Generations Should Have University Witty Clever Terrific Wartime Very Clever Very Witty

Author:Ian Hislop

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.””

“If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.”

Ifs Firsts Children Quality Economy Childhood College Succeed Our Children University Thrive Graduates Affordable Early Childhood Colleges And Universities Early Childhood Education

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”

Firsts Two Names Education Thousand Members University Faculty Telephones Boston Harvard Harvard University Faculty Members

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism.”

Ifs Feels Writing Made Book Ends Hands Remember Easy One Day Connections University Lust Prose Materialism Pace Corridors Jenny Lust For Power

Author:Umberto Eco

“I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.”

Home Three Gone Week Havens College Six University Clubs Bags Three Times Colleges And Universities

Author:Richie Havens

“There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.”

War Use Evil Moral One Thing Modern New York Students Cold University Liberalism Graduates Cold War Confronting Columbia Graduate Students Columbia University Modern Liberalism

Author:Dennis Prager

“The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.”

Should College Mass Institutions Fundamentals Notion University Various Entertainment Deceit Providing Absurdity Athletics Spectacles Unreality

Author:Charlie Pierce

“I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.”

Years Has Beens Taught Research Scientist Fellows University Peers Journal Royal Harvard Publication Cambridge Cambridge University

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.”

Roles Intellectual South University Carolina South Carolina Intellectual Life

Author:Pat Conroy

“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'”

Wells Two Known Mathematics University Determine Statements Faculty Republic Professors Recalls Well Known University Professors

Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

“Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University.”

Trying Believe Ideas Character Problem Reality Turns Strong Subjects Students Regret Approach Gains Argument University Passionate Technique Fantastic Categories Don't Regret

Author:Richard Branson

“I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.”

“Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.”

People Saws Type University Managers

Author:Simon Mawer

“I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.”

University Shirts Graduates Buttons Jackets Harvard Tweed Harvard University

Author:J. Anthony Lukas

“At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.”

Years School Five University Trauma Five Years Volunteer Centre Mechanic Bicycle

Author:Philipp Meyer

“As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.”

Country Higher Cost Mass Increase Embrace University Relative Elites Maintaining Higher Education

Author:Derek Bok

“Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.”

Growth Attention Economic Higher Politician Paid University Economist Economic Growth Higher Education

Author:Derek Bok

“I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.”

Way Felt Laughing Degrees University Shoes Painful Ceremony Outlaw Glasgow Honorary

Author:Denise Mina

“Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.”

Opportunity Social Challenges Environment Unique University Architecture Campus Princeton Opportunities And Challenges Princeton University

Author:Steven Holl

“All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.”

Courses Interest Acting My Friends University

Author:Jonas Armstrong

“As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.”

Men Young Training University California Young Man Hospitals Colleagues 80s San Francisco Fever Surgeons Epidemics Swollen General Hospital

Author:Richard Carmona

“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.”

Years States Today College Mom Dad Percent Years Ago University Inflation Going To College

Author:Elizabeth Warren

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