quotes about University
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Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
-- Alan Sugar -
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
-- Amartya Sen -
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
-- Anita Hill -
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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin
-- Bruno Freschi -
I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.
-- Cam Newton -
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
-- Carlos Slim -
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I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.
-- Carolina Herrera -
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
-- Charles BabbageSource : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
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The Library is the heart of the University.
-- Charles William Eliot -
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It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
-- Daniel Coit Gilman -
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
-- Daniel J. Evans -
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
-- Darrell Royal -
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
-- David Eagleman -
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
-- David NichollsSource : David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.159, Villard
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Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists
-- Dennis Prager -
Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.
-- Derek Nimmo -
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
-- Ellen Wilkinson -
I was the first person to go to university from my family.
-- Ellie Goulding -
Today, the entire country is an immense University.
-- Fidel Castro -
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God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.
-- Gene EdwardsSource : Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
-- Hal Abelson -
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
-- Harper LeeSource : "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Interview with Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.
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I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.
-- Helen McCrory -
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The best university is the university of life.
-- Henrique Capriles Radonski -
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
-- Horatio BottomleySource : Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7
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My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
-- Howard Finster -
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
-- J. Philippe Rushton -
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
-- Jalal Talabani -
He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
-- James Bryant ConantSource : Quoted in Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary, ed. David McCord (1936)
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Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
-- James Van Allen -
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Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
-- Jane Jacobs -
Prisons are the universities of the opposition.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
-- Jay McInerney -
It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.
-- Jennie Finch -
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The University of Google is where I got my degree from.
-- Jenny McCarthySource : "Ten alternative facts for the post truth world". www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2017.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
-- Jim Harrison -
You can't have a great university without a great library.
-- Joe PaternoSource : "At Penn State, a Bitter Reckoning" by Michael Bérubé, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2011.
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The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.
-- John Keats -
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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
-- John Stuart Mill -
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.
-- Jonas Armstrong -
In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
-- Joseph Beuys -
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
-- Julian Bond -
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
-- Karl von Frisch -
I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.
-- Kris Carr -
I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.
-- Kristin Kreuk -
It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
-- Lincoln SteffensSource : Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.124, Heyday
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.
-- Milton Friedman -
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.
-- Naveen Andrews -
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.
-- Paul A. BaranSource : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.20, NYU Press
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War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
-- Paul Virilio -
Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.
-- Philip GreenspunSource : Slashdot interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.
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The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
-- R.J. Rushdoony -
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
-- Rachel Cusk -
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I don't believe in colleges and universities.
-- Ray Bradbury -
A library is all the university you will ever need.
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Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University
-- Robert B. Parker -
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
-- Robert Pinsky -
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We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
-- Stanley Fish -
You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.
-- Steve SpurrierSource : Steve Spurrier, Buddy Martin (2016). “Head Ball Coach”, p.274, Penguin
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To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.
-- Susan Sarandon -
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
-- Thomas Piketty -
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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
-- Tom Stoppard -
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University
-- Tony Randall -
Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.
-- Tracy Morgan -
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
-- Viggo Mortensen -
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Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.
-- Claude LelouchSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
-- E. A. Bucchianeri -
No state legislature ever built a great university.
-- James E. Rogers, Jr. -
I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
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I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.
-- MC LyteSource : "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blograma.com Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.
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I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.
-- Peter Cook -
For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.
-- Rodney StarkSource : "America Has a Prayer". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 6, 2012.
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I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.
-- Jason Isaacs -