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

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" 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. "

" I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings. "

Katherine Schwarzenegger

" Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. "

" I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation. "

" I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. "

" What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. "

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. "

" I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there. "

" I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation. "

" The SAT is a scam. "

" Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force. "

Dennis L. McKiernan

" Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting. "

" 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. "

" I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. "

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

Marian Wright Edelman

" 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. "

" Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games. "

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

" One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.' "

Chance The Rapper

" The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now. "

" I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. "

" My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school. "

" North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? "

" I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan. "

Susumu Tonegawa

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

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. "

" I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift. "

" The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. "

" I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career. "