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“When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.”
“I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote a...”
“When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly diffic...”
“For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.”
“In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation o...”
“I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.”
“I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned ...”
“My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that...”
“I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party. ”
“I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.”
“My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.”
“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor...”
“So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I...”
“You cant learn to write in college. Its a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doand they dont. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but ...”
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
“Molly. I have an opportunity for you.An opportunity? I repeated, without enthusiasm. Oh, good. Next comes the part where he tells me to be a team player and then dumps some tedious task on me.Its a...”
“uh, yeah, I love...worms" Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.”
“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat ra...”
“You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator. You're sure you'll pass Math 106 this time around. Yo...”
“Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!”
