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

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" 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

" I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. "

" I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. "

" 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

" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "

" I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23. "

" I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books. "

" It can't be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can. "

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

Marian Wright Edelman

" Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me. "

" 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

" Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters. "

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

" I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad. "

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

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

" Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. "

" 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

" In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that. "

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

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

" A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. "

" School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration. "

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

" In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye. "

" I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. "

" In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl. "

" When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller. "

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