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“At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.”

Jobs Names Presses Workers University Factories Factory Workers

Author:Carl Rakosi

“I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.”

People School Wonderful Training University Elementary School Motown Proper Training

Author:Martha Reeves

“I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.”

Long Teach Long Time My Family Western University Landscape Regions Carolina North Carolina

Author:Ron Rash

“I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?”

Needs Believe School I Believe Wealth Creation Thirds Good Things University Dare Free Market Runway

Author:Stuart Rose

“The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.”

Wells Young Actors University Coming Out Young Actors

Author:Tony Randall

“I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.”

University Engineering

Author:Carlos Slim

“I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.”

Taught Amount University Insane Magazines Workshops Juggling

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.”

Needs University

Author:Alan Sugar

“After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.”

Years Firsts Courses Results Class Teacher Degrees University Examination First Class Obtaining Biochemistry

Author:Frederick Sanger

“Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.”

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Author:Frederick Sanger

“Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.”

Firsts School First Time University California Boss Southern Graduates Associates Dean Graduate School Southern California

Author:Ruth Simmons

“In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.”

Knows Way Bigs Novel Amount Scientist University Physics Frustrated Mathematician Theoretical Big Questions Theoretical Physics

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.”

Reason Courses Danger Fields Losing Threat University Visible Online Professors Monopoly

Author:Don Tapscott

“When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.”

Home Fields Becoming Majors Sight University Employment Related Engineers Electronics

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.”

World Whole Today Left Gone Forever College Library University Whole World Online Copies Cabinets Filing Newsletters Filing Cabinet

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.”

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Author:Ann Veneman

“I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.”

Has Beens Values Goal Research University Congress General Public

Author:Charles M. Vest

“The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.”

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Author:Jedediah Bila

“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.”

“In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.”

People Writing Hands School Bits Can Do Mistake Brain Smart Training University Finished Dirty Nonsense Engines Bats Surgery Truck Smart People Assembling Brain Surgery Finished School

Author:Jasper Fforde

“I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'”

Acting Study Modern Drama University

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.”

Ifs Looks Mother Degrees University Educated Illiterate University Degrees

Author:Greg Mortenson

“I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.”

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Author:Ryan McPartlin

“I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.”

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Author:C. Vivian Stringer

“I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.”

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Author:Michael Franti

“A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.”

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Author:David Horowitz

“I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.”

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Author:Ronda Rousey

“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”

“Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.”

Source: Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

“Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.”

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Author:Peter Bergen

“War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.”

War University

Author:Paul Virilio

“I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.”

Way Children States Grows Difficult Growing Up Lucky University Farmers Tenants

Author:James Hansen

“Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.”

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Author:John Katzman

“When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.”

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Author:John Katzman

“Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.”

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Author:Rick Levin

“Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.”

University Finance Tricky Surplus Nonprofits

Author:Rick Levin

“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, "My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.”

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Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.”

Spirit Communication Easier University Communicate Department

Book:Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971): Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature

Source: Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971): Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature

“My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.”

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Author:Buzz Bissinger

“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Humans Two Century Events University Obvious Backgrounds Recognition Instruction Inclusion

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”

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Author:John Henry Carver

“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.”

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Author:Tom Hicks

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