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" I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain. "
Gordon Gee
Coach
Lack
Head
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" The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts. "
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" I'm probably one of most quotable guys in America. "
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" Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life. "
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" So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible. "
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" Every time I get a lot of money, I cry, and I got a lot of tears left. "
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" The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead. "
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University
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" We play very fine schools on any given day. "
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" What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football. "
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" College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives. "
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" What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth. "
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Get
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Go
" In tumultuous times, it's important to have a very mature leader. "
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" Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. "
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" Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.' "
Gordon Gee
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Everyone
" Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other. "
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Students
Bring
" At least for me, I believe that one learns from one's mistakes. And I made significant mistakes, and I learned from them. "
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Me
Believe
Mistakes
" People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges. "
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Community
Me
Look
" I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available. "
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American Dream
American
Future
" I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue. "
Gordon Gee
Love
Ohio
University
" I think what any student adds is the ideas they bring. "
Gordon Gee
Bring
Student
I Think
" The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong. "
Gordon Gee
Education
Strength
Strong
" I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed. "
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Back
Never
College
" I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will. "
Gordon Gee
Issues
Humor
Will
" I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains. "
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Book
Life
Mountains
" I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes. "
Gordon Gee
Good
Need
You
" In a very complex world, you can no longer expect everyone to be great at everything. "
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World
Everyone
Great
" Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious. "
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Curious
Neat
Surprise
" I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates. "
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Where
Been
Completion
" Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around. "
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Office
President
" I simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously. "
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Serious
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" You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university. "
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You
Run