For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
Daniel Johnston
WorkTimeCollegeYouGoSteel
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Ira Glass
CollegeBodyTheoryPretentious
For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. Those are major transitions.
Lee Unkrich
LifeParentsPeopleCollegeOutOff
I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
Rachel Platten
TimeCollegeWritingDesireBand
I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it wasn't until I was in college for theater school in Boston that I realized I can actually start going to open mics and figuring this out.
Baron Vaughn
SchoolPeopleCollegeStartI Can
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
Alan King
BrotherCollegeNailsHimCut
I majored in dance in college.
Daniela Ruah
DanceCollege
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
Ilyasah Shabazz
Black And WhiteExperienceCollege
I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.
Lauren Holmes
WorkGreatSchoolCollegeMeStory
I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
Rae Carson
EducationSciencePreparationCollege
I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.
Earl Campbell
DecisionWifeCollegeYearRunOld
I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.
Al Roker
CollegeYearBackLostSayWithin
When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But by the time I was in college, I realized I couldn't draw well enough.
Edwin Catmull
TimeArtSchoolCollegeHigh School
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
Hari Kondabolu
CollegeAmericanFriendsYouWhite
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
CollegeEndStudentMarkIdealLog
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
Patricia Heaton
CollegeFriendsStudentLivingSales
I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.
Barbara Lynn
TodayCollegeDoingGrandchildrenGo
In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.
Wes Craven
JobSchoolNew YorkCityCollege
I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.
Eleanor Mondale
CollegeMeSomeoneDoingActingNow
I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
Harold Prince
CollegeLovedSawNineTownAbout
I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
James Carville
CollegeLovedLongToo MuchWhy
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
Patrick J. Kennedy
AgeTodayChildrenCollegeStudents
I've gotten to really, really like being back in the States. It's so easy being in your own country, and I really like Americans - typical American towns and provincial college towns are my ideal place to be.
Whit Stillman
CollegeAmericanEasyBackPlace
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
Ben Rattray
ChangeCollegeActionBelieveAlways
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