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" A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. "

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" After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off. "

Nicholas Gonzalez

" Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. "

" I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had. "

" I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing. "

" I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that. "

" At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. "

" If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation. "

" One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. "

" 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

" I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it. "

" I used to babysit a lot, and I used to be a nanny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. "

" Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. "

" You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day. "

" It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. "

" One half who graduate from college never read another book. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" First of all - I only believe what I see. "

" 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. "

" Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations. "

" It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree. "

" 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. "

" I like to go rock scrambling. "

" Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why. "

Alexandra Robbins

" At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted. "

Kimberly Guilfoyle

" Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. "

Marian Wright Edelman

" I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. "