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Simon Newcomb on graduation
Author: Simon Newcomb“In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.” -Simon Newcomb
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Claire Danes on graduation
Author: Claire Danes“I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity – sort of… I haven’t graduated yet. I’m not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.” -Claire Danes
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Neil Simon on graduation
Author: Neil Simon“You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.” -Neil Simon
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Jim Evans on graduation
Author: Jim Evans“My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.” -Jim Evans
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Emma Bonino on graduation
Author: Emma Bonino“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.” -Emma Bonino
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Daniel Greenberg on graduation
Author: Daniel Greenberg“Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.” -Daniel Greenberg
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Jim Jarmusch on graduation
Author: Jim Jarmusch“I didn’t get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.” -Jim Jarmusch
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Sara Paretsky on graduation
Author: Sara Paretsky“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.” -Sara Paretsky
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Ruby Wax on graduation
Author: Ruby Wax“College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.” -Ruby Wax
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George Weinberg on graduation
Author: George Weinberg“My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.” -George Weinberg
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Gloria Stuart on graduation
Author: Gloria Stuart“When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn’t realize it would take so long.” -Gloria Stuart
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Clay Aiken on graduation
Author: Clay Aiken“I did get a degree in special education.” -Clay Aiken
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Laurie Anderson on graduation
Author: Laurie Anderson“At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.” -Laurie Anderson
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Patrick J. Kennedy on graduation
Author: Patrick J. Kennedy“For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.” -Patrick J. Kennedy
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Irvine Welsh on graduation
Author: Irvine Welsh“I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.” -Irvine Welsh
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John Keegan on graduation
Author: John Keegan“I don’t look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.” -John Keegan
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Katherine Dunham on graduation
Author: Katherine Dunham“I have actually five honorary degrees.” -Katherine Dunham
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Scott Hamilton on graduation
Author: Scott Hamilton“I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.” -Scott Hamilton
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Fiona Apple on graduation
Author: Fiona Apple“I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I’m sorry, you have to take driver’s ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.” -Fiona Apple
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Clive James on graduation
Author: Clive James“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.” -Clive James
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Carol P. Christ on graduation
Author: Carol P. Christ“I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960’s.” -Carol P. Christ
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Bobby Scott on graduation
Author: Bobby Scott“It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.” -Bobby Scott
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Richard King on graduation
Author: Richard King“I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies.” -Richard King
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Carol Burnett on graduation
Author: Carol Burnett“We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” -Carol Burnett
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Leigh Steinberg on graduation
Author: Leigh Steinberg“It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.” -Leigh Steinberg