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" 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. "

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" I would come here, too. Who doesn't want a free ride? I want to ride in the carnival for free all day long and put my whole family on welfare. "

Kimberly Guilfoyle

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" Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. "

" My mother taught me early on not to be afraid to put myself out there - especially as a woman. "

" 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. "

" It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. "

" People can smell a fake. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very fertile Puerto Rican. "

" You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. "

" I think Dr. King, if he were alive today, he wouldn't disrespect the flag or the anthem; he would use his words and his voice to send a message for positive change. "

" 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 am at the table. I am first generation. I am Irish-Puerto Rican. I am a single mom. "

" I've been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats as former first lady of San Francisco, and the Republicans, too, so I've had a front row seat to lots of things in life. "

" I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. "

" The key lesson for me: Don't make this life about you. It's about other people. "

Kimberly Guilfoyle

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" I like Colbert because he's funny, and he's cool. He knows how to have fun and doesn't stick his nose up to Fox. "

" I want someone to be able to say, 'I relate to this person on The Five.' You feel like you belong. You kind of feel like it's family. They feel like they know us because we reveal so much about ourselves on the show. "

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

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

" All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since. "

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

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

Ray Bradbury

" Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is. "

" 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. "