102 private quotes tagged graduation

“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

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“The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.” — Frank Murphy

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“Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.” — James Tobin

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“I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.” — Shannon Lucid

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“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

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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

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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.” — Jillian Bach

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“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

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“From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.” — Dick Cheney

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“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.” — R. Lee Ermey

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“A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.” — Moira Kelly

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“People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.” — Janelle Monae

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“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.” — Tim Duncan

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“I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.” — Dianna Agron

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“The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.” — Martha Reeves

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“I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.” — Maureen Forrester

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“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.” — Ruben Hinojosa

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“I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.” — Will McDonough

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“Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.” — Julie Taymor

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“I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.” — Olivia Wilde

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“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.” — James D'arcy

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“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

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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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“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

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“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.” — Lee Pace

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