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“I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.”

“Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.”

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Author:Julian Baggini

“Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.”

Mean Becoming University Debt Indebted

Author:Michael Gove

“The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.”

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“Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.”

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Source: Point of View: Talks on Education

“Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.”

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Author:William C. Kirby

“Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.”

Feels Mean Bits University Uneducated Educated And Uneducated

Author:Naveen Andrews

“The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.”

People World Technology Entrepreneur University Productive Best Technology

Author:Ben Bernanke

“I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.”

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Author:Colin Baker

“The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.”

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Author:Paul D. Boyer

“John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.”

“Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.”

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Author:Tom Barrett

“I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.”

Want Study Lessons University Piano Want To Travel Piano Lesson

Author:Zach Braff

“I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.”

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Author:Anne Carson

“When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.”

Knows Years Two Play Wanted School Courses Actors Opportunity Chance Taken Drama High School Decided University Two Years

Author:Kim Coates

“My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.”

Firsts Littles Kids School Used Father Stage Needed First Time University Productions Grades Professors Little Kid University Professors

Author:Michael Cerveris

“Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.”

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Author:Dale Archer

“When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.”

Knows Baby Arms University Pennsylvania Diploma University Of Pennsylvania

Author:Gloria Allred

“I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.”

Has Beens School Levels Fiction Technology Subjects Taught College High School Science Fiction University Institute Lecturer Colleges And Universities Institutes Smithsonian

Author:Jack L. Chalker

“In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.”

Hands Would Be Needed Program Management Winter University Entertainment Hotel Sleight Of Hand

Author:Ricky Jay

“I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.”

Want Believe Heart Long Hard I Believe Acting Plans My Heart Long Time University I Believe In

Author:Natasha Calis

“I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.”

People Would Be Decided University Chemistry Lectures Chemist Zoologist

Author:Peter Carey

“The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.”

Tradition University Texas University Of Texas

Author:Roger Clemens

“I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.”

Actors Months University Nine Queens Ran Nine Months Belfast

Author:Simon Callow

“I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.”

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Author:Arne Duncan

“Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.”

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Author:Artur Davis

“I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.”

Stories America Remember Law Ethics University Work Ethic Unbelievable Rule Of Law Blossoming Best Business Mojo

Author:Jamie Dimon

“I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.”

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Author:Jerry Doyle

“I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.”

Ifs Want Writing Years Fiction Study Needed Discipline University Valuable Day To Day Obsessive Fiction Writing Iowa

Author:John Dalton

“I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.”

World Real Film Literature Poet University Real Relationship

Author:Alice Eve

“When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.”

War University

Author:Daniel J. Evans

“One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.”

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Author:Charles Frazier

“I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.”

Ifs Values Parent Views Conditions Catholic University Betrayal Legacy Tenure

Author:Norman Finkelstein

“I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.”

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Author:Paula Fox

“A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.”

Creative Expression University Critical Artistic Platforms Discourse Artistic Expression Nucleus

Author:Gordon Gee

“As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.”

Country States Play Moving Roles Land University Critical Our Country Grants Ohio Ohio State

Author:Gordon Gee

“Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.”

Political President Office Majors University

Author:Gordon Gee

“The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.”

Ifs Art States Rich Quiet University Heritage Ohio Ohio State Ohio State University

Author:Gordon Gee

“College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.”

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Author:Gordon Gee

“I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.”

School Girl Church Teacher Nice England University Expected Missionary Nurse Church Of England

Author:Kate Adie

“Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.”

Ifs Forever Tree University Sunny Stanford Stanford University

Author:Ken Auletta

“I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.”

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Author:Megan Abbott

“I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.”

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Author:Peter Ackroyd

“As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.”

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Author:David Eagleman

“My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.”

Wells Mom Dad University My Dad Humble My Mom Humble Beginnings

Author:Petra Stunt

“Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.”

Needs Jobs Young Suffering Opportunity University Population Iran Unemployment Job Opportunities

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.”

Years I Can Dream Can Do Honest Limits Blue University Being Honest Chips Headings Blue Chips

Author:Adam Faith

“Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'”

Age Science Names Principles Pure University Dots Isms Cambridge

Author:W. W. Rouse Ball

“[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.”

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Author:Joel Henry Hildebrand

“If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.”

Ifs Firsts Political Class Honor Politician Degrees Greed University Honour First Class University Degrees Backbenchers

Author:Paul Keating

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