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" 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. "
Tony Hillerman
Quit
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College
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" I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer. "
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" 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. "
Peter Jurasik
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" Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. "
Tony Hillerman
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" 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. "
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" Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. "
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Place
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" I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. "
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" An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. "
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" I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. "
Frederick Reines
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Physics
" You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day. "
Andy Samberg
School
Graduation
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" I have actually five honorary degrees. "
Katherine Dunham
Actually
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" Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were. "
Tony Hillerman
Liquor
Last
Where
" One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. "
Jerry Moran
Why
Most
Graduation
" 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
Washington
Government
Graduation
" I left for New York three days after graduation. "
Jenn Lyon
Three
Days
New
" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "
T. S. Eliot
You
Graduation
Know
" It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. "
Bobby Scott
Impossible
Graduation
College
" I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day. "
Kimberly Quinn
Think
Love
Know
" 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
You
Graduation
Your
" I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. "
Sara Paretsky
Graduation
Science
College
" Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. "
Herb Ritts
Business
Graduation
Learning
" My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak. "
Lecrae
Community
Family
Speak
" The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. "
Robert M. Hutchins
Graduation
College
Intellectual
" 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. "
Ken Buck
Opportunity
Women
Men
" I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college, loved the work I was doing, and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones. "
Kimberly Bryant
Myself
School
Passion
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
You
School
Work
" When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. "
Sheryl Sandberg
Me
Mother
Sister
" When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at. "
Lena Dunham
Jobs
Believe
Just
" 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. "
Nina Easton
Cry
Culture
Day
" I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation. "
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" I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. "
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