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" I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. "

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

" 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

" 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

" What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. "

" I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player. "

" 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

" Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. "

" At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers. "

" 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. "

" In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. "

" When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at. "

" I have actually five honorary degrees. "

Katherine Dunham

" 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. "

" 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. "

" So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. "

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

" 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

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

" I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. "

" The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

" If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. "

" I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. "

Daniel J. Evans

" I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. "

" The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. "

" 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. "

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

Ruth Ann Minner