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Davos is my university. -- Hubert Burda
War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there. -- Paul Virilio
I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education. -- Chevy Stevens
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. -- Jack Ma
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction. -- Louisa May Alcott
I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company. -- Bill Gates
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street. -- Philippe Petit
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber -- Rowan Pelling
Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of ideas and political thought. -- Mark Schlissel
ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments. -- St. Lucia
It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC. -- Zachary Quinto
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man. -- Chick Corea
Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in. -- Kim Hyesoon
I joined the Wildlife Conservation Society, working there, in 1995, but I started working with them as a student in 1991. I was appointed as a teaching assistant at my university because I accomplished with honor. -- Corneille Ewango
When I was single I used to list the qualities that I would need in my first love. Then one ordinary day in my university, I looked into the eyes of a girl and saw everything I ever needed. The rest is history ; ) -- Mike Bliss
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. -- John Henry Carver
I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24. -- John Shelby Spong
Changi became my university instead of my prison. ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving. -- James Clavell
My mum wanted me to go to university. -- Florence Welch
My university work was not central to my education. -- Italo Calvino
My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway. -- Lee Krasner
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. -- Fidel Castro
I was the first person to go to university from my family. -- Ellie Goulding
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university. -- Ellen Wilkinson
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. -- Jim Evans
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. -- Roger Clemens
Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field. -- Stephen Hawking
My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s. -- Chris Abani
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. -- James Cronin
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. -- Douglass North
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. -- Thomas Peterffy
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.' -- Richard Ayoade
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. -- Maya Lin
I didn't completed my University Education -- Bill Gates
I didn't even complete my University Education -- Bill Gates
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. -- Karl von Frisch
The University of Google is where I got my degree from. -- Jenny McCarthy
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year, -- David Alan Grier
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year. -- David Alan Grier
My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly. -- Roger Lloyd-Pack
Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan, -- Jim Harbaugh
My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University. -- Joe Biden
I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway. -- Jenn Proske
I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially. -- Jason Isaacs
My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research. -- David Willetts
Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due." -- Kevin Roose
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977. -- Anita Hill
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977 -- Anita Hill
I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off. -- MC Lyte
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I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education. -- Helen McCrory
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. -- Michel Faber
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. -- James Cronin
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863. -- Carl Spitteler
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble -- Alister E. McGrath
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal. -- Paul D. Boyer
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. -- Shelley Berman
My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university. -- Petra Stunt
I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve. -- Barry Sternlicht
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary -- Carl Jung
One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made. -- Michael Gove
The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession. -- Rick Dees
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it. -- Roger Clemens
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. -- George Stigler
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. -- George Stigler
I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree. -- Keith Murray
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. -- Pat Conroy
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising. -- Joseph DeRisi
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA. -- Tom Riley
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. -- Amartya Sen
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. -- Antonio Tabucchi
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. -- Cate Marvin
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. -- Susan Orlean
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university, -- Jose Manuel Barroso
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. -- Iain Banks
When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach. -- Victoria Pratt
I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty. -- Donald Ray Pollock
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. -- Woodrow Wilson
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. -- Robert Darnton
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational. -- Robert Lacey
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. -- David Nicholls
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots. -- Mary Augusta Ward
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My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision. -- Lucy Pinder
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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. -- Alice Walker
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. -- Archie Panjabi
All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie. -- Isobelle Carmody
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA. -- Jonas Armstrong
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946. -- Henry Taube
I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons. -- Warren Spector
I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films." -- Eric Darnell
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. -- Lynne Truss
When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress. -- Gena Rowlands
I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films. -- Eric Darnell
I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says. -- Cheryl Strayed
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Sidney Altman
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. -- Jasper Fforde
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. -- Chuck D
I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian. -- Mallory Ortberg
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University. -- Emilio Ambasz
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree. -- Donatella Versace
In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return. -- J.R. Rim
My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things. -- Penelope Mitchell
During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life. -- Carolina Herrera
I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop. -- Ryan Hemsworth
I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York. -- Adrian McKinty
Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university. -- Robert E. Lee
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. -- Robyn Davidson
[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
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university. -- Chuck Feeney
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester. -- Robert Robinson

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