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James Green Somerville on graduation
Author: James Green Somerville“I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.” -James Green Somerville
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Ed O’Neill on graduation
Author: Ed O’Neill“In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That’s when I started to be interested in girls.” -Ed O’Neill
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M. H. Abrams on graduation
Author: M. H. Abrams“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.” -M. H. Abrams
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James Stewart on graduation
Author: James Stewart“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.” -James Stewart
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David Eddings on graduation
Author: David Eddings“I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.” -David Eddings
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Alexis Herman on graduation
Author: Alexis Herman“Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.” -Alexis Herman
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Daniel J. Evans on graduation
Author: Daniel J. Evans“I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind – although I was just 22.” -Daniel J. Evans
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G. M. Trevelyan on graduation
Author: G. M. Trevelyan“One half who graduate from college never read another book.” -G. M. Trevelyan
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Al McGuire on graduation
Author: Al McGuire“Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.” -Al McGuire
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Frederick Reines on graduation
Author: Frederick Reines“I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.” -Frederick Reines
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Gordon Brown on graduation
Author: Gordon Brown“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.” -Gordon Brown
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Bobby Heenan on graduation
Author: Bobby Heenan“North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?” -Bobby Heenan
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Marc Garneau on graduation
Author: Marc Garneau“I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.” -Marc Garneau
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Peter Gallagher on graduation
Author: Peter Gallagher“I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.” -Peter Gallagher
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Herb Ritts on graduation
Author: Herb Ritts“Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.” -Herb Ritts
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Ted Nelson on graduation
Author: Ted Nelson“So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.” -Ted Nelson
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Alan Dundes on graduation
Author: Alan Dundes“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.” -Alan Dundes
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Jon Secada on graduation
Author: Jon Secada“Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I’ve known for years are all in the industry together.” -Jon Secada
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Robert Sternberg on graduation
Author: Robert Sternberg“ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.” -Robert Sternberg
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Jim Clyburn on graduation
Author: Jim Clyburn“I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.” -Jim Clyburn
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Tobias Wolff on graduation
Author: Tobias Wolff“I teach one semester a year, and this year I’m just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.” -Tobias Wolff
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Douglas Wilson on graduation
Author: Douglas Wilson“Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.” -Douglas Wilson
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Christine Gregoire on graduation
Author: Christine Gregoire“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.” -Christine Gregoire
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Robert M. Hutchins on graduation
Author: Robert M. Hutchins“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.” -Robert M. Hutchins
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Faith Hill on graduation
Author: Faith Hill“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.” -Faith Hill