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I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. -- John Lydon
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
As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time. -- Kim Hyesoon
When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea. -- Evangeline Lilly
I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!' -- Carmen Busquets
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
I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student. -- Nicholas Kristof
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. -- Noam Chomsky
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. -- Constance Baker Motley
I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama. -- Anna Popplewell
Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it. -- Michael N. Castle
Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University. -- Jerry Costello
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. -- John Ciardi
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. -- James Cronin
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. -- Robert Reich
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. -- Oriana Fallaci
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students. -- Ruth J. Simmons
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper. -- Tabitha Soren
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. -- Milton Friedman
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. -- Hu Shih
I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university. -- Earl Campbell
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. -- Daniel Nathans
I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes. -- Prince William
Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential. -- Amy Jo Martin
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. -- Anant Agarwal
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
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due." -- Kevin Roose
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941. -- F. Sionil Jose
I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions. -- Paula Broadwell
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. -- Sebastian Coe
There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. -- Allan Bloom
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee. -- Pat Summitt
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema. -- Anurag Kashyap

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