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The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. -- Phyllis Schlafly
College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus. -- Jerry Kramer
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. -- Minoru Yamasaki
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. -- Amartya Sen
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy. -- Claire Danes
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road. -- Tatyana Ali
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. -- Gloria Steinem
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. -- Michelle Obama
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. -- Tom Ford
Campus ... brings back so many memories that I would ... have made ... -- Michael Scott
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. -- Theodore Hesburgh
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal. -- Paul D. Boyer
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is. -- William P. Leahy
Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses. -- Rick Ross
In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories. -- Vito Fossella
Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States. -- Paul Weyrich
How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals? -- Tim Reid
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York. -- Whitfield Diffie
I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. -- Cheech Marin
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' -- Gertrude Stein
Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West. -- Bill Dedman
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway. -- Michael N. Castle
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier. -- Harrison Salisbury
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are. -- Gloria Steinem
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play -- Danny Glover
The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there. -- Scotty McCreery
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? -- Thomas Sowell
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it. -- Gary Johnson
Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry. -- Meghan Daum
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger. -- Sloane Crosley
Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe. -- Ted Cruz
For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone. -- Tony Dungy
I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday. -- Scotty McCreery
I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus. -- Alison Gopnik
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past. -- Ruth J. Simmons
I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school. -- Bruce Springsteen
I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy. -- Will Ferrell
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. -- Danny Glover
By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point. -- Vint Cerf
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. -- Maureen Dowd
I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. -- Sam Walton
Fresh off campus is the Birdman JR -- Lil Wayne
The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive. -- Rainbow Rowell
Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more. -- Ron Paul
The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else. -- John Leo
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women. -- Camille Paglia
Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing. -- Rick Ross
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds. -- Dillon Burroughs
The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines. -- Lisa Birnbach
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. -- Steven Holl
Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe. -- Greg Gutfeld
"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in. -- Kevin Sessums
I have permission to live off campus." She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself. -- Rachel Caine
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy -- Alexander Chase
I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection. -- John Grant
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. -- John Leo
I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy. -- Drake
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. -- Peter Drucker
Cool," I said. "You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework. -- Richelle Mead
Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep. -- Graham Nash
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. -- J. D. Salinger
Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally. -- Lenny Bruce
Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics? -- Gloria Steinem
Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains. -- Barack Obama
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses. -- Ralph Nader
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space. -- Malcolm Bradbury
If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too. -- Talib Kweli
Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.) -- Rainbow Rowell
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. -- Saul Perlmutter
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them. -- Charles Kennedy
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things ... -- Richard P. Feynman
Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there. -- Marc Maron
Today's "issue" had come all the way down from the System level, where some pinhead wanted to tie each campus's funding directly to its graduation rates. -- Mark Panek
I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus. -- Tammara Webber
I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus." -- Tammara Webber
There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate. -- Brian Greene
I want to leave a legacy. I'll leave him in the trunk, tied up, at a parking garage on the campus of the university where he graduated. -- Jarod Kintz
While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus. -- New York Times Staff
By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
USA schools know that computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions, WiFi and campus cell towers are radiation poisoning the children and the government is determined to keep on doing it. -- Steven Magee
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus. -- Thomas Sowell
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard. -- Surya Das
I have a few uniforms - depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me. -- Nancy Pelosi
Beauty is everywhere -- on the campus, in the office, living next door ... Nice girls like sex too -- it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it. -- Hugh Hefner
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. -- Rudolph A. Marcus
I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star." -- John Lithgow
So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home. -- Bill Ayers
In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus. -- Chuck Green
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system. -- Abraham Robinson
I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for. -- Rush Limbaugh
Then Circled by the golden light of God's Presence and His promise, Paul and Sierra walked side by side along the trail that lead tward the campus and on tward their Future -- Robin Jones Gunn
I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest. -- Kent McCord
So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski -- Wendelin Van Draanen
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time. -- James Van Der Beek
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies. -- Camille Paglia
First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus. -- Dean Smith
I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus. -- Claire McCaskill
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night. -- Davy Rothbart
I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love. -- Hillary Clinton
I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally. -- Thom Mayne
He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking. -- Jesse Owens
I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it. -- Aldis Hodge
This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences. -- Frederick Reines
I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector. -- Philip Freelon

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