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'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.' -- Andy Kindler
'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score. -- Hans Zimmer
What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written. -- Alicia Silverstone
Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage! -- Jerry Hall
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made. -- Jeffrey Katzenberg
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy. -- Jay Roach
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told. -- Nancy Meyers
The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.' -- Andy Kindler
What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written. -- Alicia Silverstone
Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget. -- Mario Testino
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s. -- Ruth J. Simmons
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA. -- James Franco
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. -- Daniel J. Evans
It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt. -- Simon Kuznets
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. -- Alan Dundes
As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write. -- Jason Reitman
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me. -- Stephen Chbosky
I'll never graduate from collagen. -- Dolly Parton
Graduate study is an intensive education. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. -- Anne Lamott
Allow yourself to graduate, every five years. -- Cathy Guisewite
I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student. -- Brian Kernighan
You never graduate from the school of discipleship. -- Howard G. Hendricks
I went through high school, but I didn't graduate. -- Evel Knievel
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal. -- Ambrose Bierce
Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
We don't stop going to school when we graduate. -- Carol Burnett
In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school. -- Christopher Bollen
One half who graduate from college never read another book. -- G. M. Trevelyan
Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school. -- Clark Terry
Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist. -- Todd Park
Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs. -- Emily Yoffe
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting. -- Michael Arndt
Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic. -- Jim Steinmeyer
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. -- Doug Larson
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. -- Daniel J. Evans
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. -- Noam Chomsky
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies
When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school! -- Tyler Blackburn
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway. -- John Scalzi
Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors. -- Louisa May Alcott
I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months. -- Camilla Belle
Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy. -- Tom Freston
I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. -- Joe Theismann
Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read. -- Samuel West
Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years. -- Michael Eisner
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate. -- Taslima Nasrin
Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone. -- Donalyn Miller
I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate. -- Jimmy Buffett
God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate. -- Gene Edwards
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. -- Robert M. Hutchins
I'll graduate high school with a major in Cynicism & a minor in Irritation." -- Chelsea Pitcher
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college. -- Mark Kennedy
If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education. -- Richard J. Foster
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. -- Kenneth Arrow
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. -- Ted Nelson
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. -- Kenneth Arrow
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction. -- Louisa May Alcott
I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on. -- T. D. Jakes
I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts! -- Tena Desae
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. -- Malcolm X
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school. -- Donald Ray Pollock
I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself. -- Carmelo Anthony
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school. -- Evan Sayet
This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate. -- David Berg
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. -- Barney Ross
There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate. -- Henny Youngman
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. -- John Piper
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. -- Adam Gopnik
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. -- Douglas Wilson
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. -- Herbert Hoover
Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. -- James Cronin
Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. -- John French Sloan
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. -- Alan Perlis
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. -- Tracie Thoms
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off. -- Robert Reich
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. -- Russell Banks
We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. -- Natalie Goldberg
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' -- Jack Horner
The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. -- Darren Hardy
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. -- Peter McWilliams
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here. -- Ruth Simmons
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. -- Shelley Berman
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them -- Dean Stockwell
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes. -- J. Anthony Lukas
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. -- M. H. Abrams
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. -- Robert Fulghum
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. -- John Green
It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's. -- Kellie Martin
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. -- Ted Nelson
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind. -- Elizabeth Lesser
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? -- Bobby Heenan
I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. -- Lawrence Wright
What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers. -- Theodore Beale
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. -- Samuel Parris
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. -- James Tobin
I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live. -- Danielle Panabaker
Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! -- Simone Elkeles
Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art. -- Nell Irvin Painter
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. -- Christopher Bollen
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. -- George Stigler
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. -- Seamus Heaney
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. -- Taylor Swift
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. -- Jon Postel
Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. -- Donna Leon
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. -- Thomas J. Sargent
After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own. -- Rachel Maddow
I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate. -- Daniela Hantuchova
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama. -- Nicki Minaj
I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school. -- Rachel Nichols

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