quotes about Graduates
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld -
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.
-- Cesar Millan -
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
-- Charles Darwin -
In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.
-- Christopher Bollen -
It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
-- Christopher Bond -
If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?
-- Coolio -
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I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.
-- Danielle PanabakerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them
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Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.
-- Donalyn MillerSource : Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons
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After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
-- Donna Rice Hughes -
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The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
-- Doug Larson -
I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
-- Douglass NorthSource : Source: therumpus.net
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
-- Edward Abbey -
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
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Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
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Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
-- Ezekiel EmanuelSource : "Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief" by Betsy McCaughey, www.wsj.com. August 27, 2009.
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That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
-- Frederik PohlSource : "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, 1978.
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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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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
-- George Stigler -
To get elected as a Democrat, it`s hard to be from the city. It`s hard to be a graduate of Duke University.
-- Howard FinemanSource : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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You never graduate from the school of discipleship.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.
-- Irene Cara -
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
-- J. Anthony Lukas -
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
-- Jena Malone -
I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
-- Joe Theismann -
Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.
-- John Maeda -
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I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
-- John Scalzi -
It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.
-- Kellie Martin -
I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.
-- Lawrence Wright -
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
-- Leslie Marmon Silko -
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
-- Marc Andreessen -
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
-- Michael Arndt -
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
-- Michael N. Castle -
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
-- Miles TellerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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More women are graduating from college now than men.
-- Mitch McConnell -
I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.
-- Nicki Minaj -
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.
-- Paul Halmos -
After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.
-- Rachel Maddow -
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
-- Rachel Nichols -
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies -
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
-- Robin Morgan -
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
-- Rube Goldberg -
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I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.
-- Ryan Lewis -
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
-- Steve Jobs -
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
-- Sydney Pollack -
I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
-- Taslima Nasrin -
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
-- Ted Nelson -
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.
-- Timothy Garton AshSource : "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.
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Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
-- Vernon L. SmithSource : Vernon L. Smith (2008). “Discovery - A Memoir”, p.126, AuthorHouse
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
-- W. Richard Stevens -
I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
-- William Shatner -
BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.
-- Andy Kindler -
The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.
-- Darren Hardy -
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I moved straight from kindergarten ,at age 4, to graduate school to my position at Lake Forest ,at age 26. No break. No bumming around Europe. No peace corps. No corporate cubicle job. No stint as a Starbucks barrista.
-- Davis SchneidermanSource : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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Most Chinese filmmakers grew up watching television; they watched films on television, not in cinemas. The scope of their vision is not big enough, they're not yet detail-oriented enough. You have to watch films in cinemas for years to understand the depth and scope of vision needed in filmmaking. Directors in China usually come from an academic background; they graduate as film directors. Whereas the directors from Hong Kong learn their trade on sets, beginning at the lowest rung.
-- Gordon ChanSource : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
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Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.
-- Irwin WinklerSource : "Irwin Winkler: A Film Producer's Producer". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 8, 2007.
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Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for your own interests, while maintaining a smokescreen of virtuous intent.
-- Jess RowSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look at my own stories in that way. And that was what made editing such a challenge for me.
-- Tania James -
Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.
-- Rose LeslieSource : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.
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When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.
-- Samuel AlitoSource : "An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.
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My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.
-- Israel Gelfand -