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Author:H. L. Mencken

“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”

Ifs Mean Persons Government Given Term Work Effort Responsibility Serious Office Golf University Clubs Agency Faculty Yield Given Up Quota Golf Clubs Dropouts Government Agencies

Book:The Recovery of Confidence

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'”

Firsts Bigs Christ Church Atheism Becoming Draws Fellows University Complaining Conclusion California Tides Bangs Hints Rushing Astronomers San Diego Church Of Christ

Author:Hugh Ross

“No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.”

Suffering Courses Strong Social Independence Threat University Feminist Patriarchy Persecution Aunt Predictable Condemnation Marxist Single Women Spinsters Childlessness Great Aunt

Author:Tobsha Learner

“I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.”

People Art Able Fine Degrees University Fine Arts

Author:Julia Child

“Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.”

Position Students Succeed Rate University Bars Grades Passages Qualified

Author:Mary Kissel

“To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.”

Hard Cities Democrat University Graduates Dukes Duke University

Author:Howard Fineman

“For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.”

Art Bigs Lost Felt Rights Effects Months Husband University Afghanistan My Sister Gallery Dolls Art Galleries

Author:Malina Suliman

“I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.”

Want Kind Children Would Be Literature Teach Comedy University Insane Suspects English Literature Deeply In Love

Author:Stephen Fry

“I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. And then when I was applying for universities I used a couple of places on my UCAS form to apply for drama school without telling anyone... but didn't get into drama school. But that was the most rebellious thing I did.”

School Form Used Opportunity Acting Couple Involved Drama University Academic Rebellious

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.”

“Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.”

World Years Able Five University Five Years Lectures

Author:Bill Gates

“University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.”

World Opportunity Wonderful University About Yourself

Author:Robert F. Goheen

“The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed”

Feels Lonely University Worthy Rational Feds Admiration Thinker Positively

Book:Memories and Studies

Source: Memories and Studies

“Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.”

Want Possibility University Clouds Rainbow

Author:Maya Angelou

“Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.”

Humor Funny Literature University Wit Incline Sophistry

Author:Jacques Barzun

“As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.”

Mind Matter Facts Order Growth Students College Healthy Normal Management University Kicks Protest Academic Riot Matter Of Fact Colleges And Universities

Author:William Allen White

“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”

People Book Reason Age Young Method University Inns Taverns Vicinity Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.”

People World Known Car College Anxiety Window University Native American Automobile Prompts Affiliation Colleges And Universities Rear Window

Book:Class

Source: Class

“I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.”

Knows Humans Form Water Achievement Mark University Professors University Professors

Author:Ken Robinson

“Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.”

Real Hands Blood Draws University Hostile Prompts

Book:We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade

Source: We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade

“Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony”

Thinking University Determined Tolerance Irony

Author:John Perry Barlow

“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”

Goal Brain University Republic American Universities

Book:America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near

Source: America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near

“The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.”

Ideas Order Fantasy Successful University Surround Authorship

Author:Vera Brittain

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.”

Sports University Coaches Texas Resigned University Of Texas

Author:Darrell Royal

“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.”

World Art Ideas Artist Situation Study Students University Museums Academic Art Students

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.”

Book Government Purpose Calling Presses University Printing Printing Press

Author:Francis Cornford

“Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.”

People Thinking Should Long Waiting Levels Subjects Economics University

Author:Robert Duvall

“You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.”

People Grows Powerful Ready University Engines Harvard Colorado Stanford

Author:John Hickenlooper

“I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.”

People Should Important Cases Students Huge Conversation Messages University Openness Diplomacy Monologues Cultural Exchange

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.”

School Medicine University Medical Medical School

Author:Samuel Wilson

“The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.”

Reason Christianity Principles Truth Is Claims Historical University Determined Revelations Tolerate Secular Seekers Allegations

Author:Louis Mackey

“I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.”

Enough Sick Tired University Algebra

Author:Iain Dowie

“It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.”

Looks States Deals Technology Successful Example Program University Fund Grants Collaboration Minnesota Clinic

Author:Brian Thompson

“The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.”

Should Ideas Support College Particular University California Committees Emphasis Framework Campus

Author:Abraham Robinson

“The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.”

People Thinking Knows Problem Fall Education Degrees University Traps Spectacular University Degrees

Author:Robert Genn

“Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.”

World Should Years Littles Would Be Science Courses Study Four Should Have Mathematics University Physics Satisfied Greek Latin Chemistry New World Four Years Geology Wisconsin Botany

Book:Essential Muir

Source: Essential Muir

“It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.”

Wells Persons Turns Understanding Function University Balanced Place In Life

Author:Vincent Massey

“At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.”

Art Important Artist Teacher Theory University Contrary Academic Orientation Best Teacher Renowned

Author:Ralph Allen

“At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better”

Years Wells Found Known Class Seeing University Predictions Well Known Psychics Freshman

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.”

Giving Persons I Can Opportunity Poor Rich University No Money Rich Person

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"”

Firsts Two Week Rocks Picks University Biology Toys First Love Bike Marine Two Weeks Biologist Vets Marine Biologist

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.”

Bigs Today Film Young Next Actors Realizing Duty Industry Directors Late Approach Hollywood Silent University Cinema Vague Young Actors Hollywood Films Silent Films

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.”

Writing Form Acting Class Months Tired University I Realized Performing Narcolepsy

Author:William Shatner

“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.”

Years Firsts Done Wanted Actors Language Term Acting University Italian Academic Exam Foreign Language

Author:Nick Offerman

“It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.”

Thinking Years Shows Together Joy Havens Performances University Alas

Author:Ian Mckellen

“I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.”

Sports Musician University Designer Brown Dna Rowing

Author:Dhani Harrison

“I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.”

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Author:Matt Frewer

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