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" Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates. "

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" I have actually five honorary degrees. "

Katherine Dunham

" I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary. "

" If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment. "

" I wasn't the student body this, student body that. I was not much into running for office. "

" Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it. "

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

" Every day, opportunities within the hemisphere go untapped, and millions of dollars are lost simply because companies do not know where to begin if they want to expand into new territories and grow their business. "

" Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set. "

" After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. "

" When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and actress, etc., and there's absolutely no representation of color whatsoever, I think that's a subset of perhaps a bigger problem. "

" It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity. "

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

" It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public. "

" I graduated from the University of Whatever. "

" You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing. "

Gil Scott-Heron

" It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree. "

" We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'. "

" While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. "

" The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years. "

Dennis Washington

" I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater. "

" Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. "

Natalie Babbitt

" Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials. "

Harold E. Varmus

" Being fined for violating the rules of your league is not the same as a shop owner on Main Street paying to have a new sign hung in front of their business. One is a business expense, the other is a punishment. "

" Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. "

" I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.' "

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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

" 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. "

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

" A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials. "

" I meditate, and I try to do that twice a day. "