My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was.
Paul Pierce
AttitudePowerBrotherCollegeMe
I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
TimeCollegeRightOutFilmWorking
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
Aaron Levie
WorkParentsCollegeFriendsYear
I didn't even have cable back in my college house.
Carson Wentz
CollegeBackHouseEvenCable
I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
Jack Ramsay
LifeCollegeBrainBasketballGame
I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
Patrisse Cullors
PowerCollegeArtistMouthsWhile
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
T. D. Jakes
HomeAgeSchoolCollegeHigh School
I ended up getting kicked out of my house when I was 16, and I went off to college. When they actually saw that I was getting some kind of stability as far as having a career in this business is when they started coming around.
Dania Ramirez
BusinessCollegeCareerHouseKind
Rob Kalin, Etsy's founder, never finished college. Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey - the founders of Twitter - are not college graduates. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, is another dropout. And, of course, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
Caterina Fake
CollegeStoneNeverFacebookFounder
I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
J. Cole
TiredCollegeThinkFriendsCareer
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Paul Fussell
CarPeopleCollegeMeWindowWorld
The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title 'Melissa,' and eventually, it got too long.
Sally Rooney
CollegeMeStoryShortFriendsLong
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
Danica McKellar
EducationWomenMathematicsCollege
I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.
Carmen Cusack
LoveMusicBeautifulSchoolCollege
Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.
J. J. Watt
SchoolCollegeMeHigh SchoolYear
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.
Nicholas Kristof
ReligionSchoolCollegeEconomics
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
Salman Rushdie
CollegeActingAlwaysItchEven
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg
CollegePaintingWorthMoreOut
After graduation, I discovered that I'd hit the limit of what I could learn from the women in my family. On top of that, in the workforce, all of the things that mattered in college suddenly weren't enough.
Caroline Ghosn
FamilyWomenCollegeGraduationTop
I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
J. K. Simmons
FamilyTeacherCollegeSisterHigh
I did, like, one or two plays in high school, but I don't think I realized I wanted to do comedy until I got to college, and I started doing improv and saw the Upright Citizens Brigade perform and did workshops with them.
Nick Kroll
SchoolCollegeHigh SchoolThinkTwo
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
ArtCollegePaintingFeelArtist
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
Dan Marino
CollegeThinkBetterI CanThrow
Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.
Ajay Mehta
SchoolCollegeTeachersBrilliant
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