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I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language. -- Ana Tijoux
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels. -- Scarlett Thomas
You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled. -- Chris Lilley
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard. -- Malala Yousafzai
I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history. -- Joe Jamail
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. -- Ted Shackelford
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. -- Elizabeth Moon
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it. -- Tom Rachman
When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight. -- Eric Whitacre
If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively. -- Miguel Syjuco
I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. -- Andrew Motion
If I did want to go back to school, I'd want to go to Loyola Marymount University over in, I believe, Morina, or Pepperdine. Those are just beautiful campuses. I know that's probably not the right reason to go school. The campuses are just stunning. -- Scott Michael Foster
I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and say, 'You will give back.' -- Mia Love
I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning. -- Marianne Faithfull
I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight. -- Arne Duncan
In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research. -- Michael Smith
I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure. -- Kimbra
I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A. -- Kevin Dunn
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion. -- Johnny Vegas
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. -- Margaret Thatcher
You can't really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University] -- Cornel West
[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born. -- Kehinde Wiley
Maybe I'll come back as somebody else. I'll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. "?Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well? -- Jenny Downham

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