Columbia Quotes
135 quotes by 126 authors
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the…
— Dave Brubeck
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The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
— Dick Cheney
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The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.
— George W. Bush
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There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small…
— Edward Lear
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There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
— John F. Kennedy
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Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at…
— Abbey Lee Kershaw
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When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be…
— Doris Day
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Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record…
— Lyle Lovett
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When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant,…
— Ann Coulter
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I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and…
— Nico Tortorella
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Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised…
— Wayne Allyn Root
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Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was…
— Martin Denny
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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
— Aravind Adiga
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Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by…
— William Kittredge
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My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push…
— George Weinberg
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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous…
— Ward Churchill
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Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's…
— David Dinkins
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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
— Constance Baker Motley
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As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities…
— Rick Larsen
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