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" After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count. "

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" Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! "

" I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. "

" 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. "

" 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

" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

" After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University. "

" I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world. "

" Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there. "

" I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed. "

" When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. "

" It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system. "

" 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

" The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry. "

" 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. "

" Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. "

Natalie Babbitt

" Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets. "

" I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. "

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini. "

Oliver E. Williamson

" While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. "

" 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

" I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music. "