Best Columbia Quotations
135 Columbia quotes by 121 unique authors
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I loved working on 'Happy Gilmore' because I love to travel to new places and we got to go to British Columbia. Any Adam Sandler…
— Kevin Nealon
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia,…
— Walter Payton
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I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
— Ryan Reynolds
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They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and…
— Hugh Sidey
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I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had…
— Bruce Springsteen
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The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
— Cass Sunstein
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I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
— Gene Tierney
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As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
— Steve Yzerman
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Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a…
— Eric Foner
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Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is…
— Megan McCafferty
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When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
— Julia Bacha
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live…
— Randall Kennedy
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The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.
— Trey Gowdy
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I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University,…
— Daniel Goldstein
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I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.
— Nicole Holofcener
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I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry…
— Kary Mullis
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Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the…
— Martin Rees
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There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use…
— Dennis Prager
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Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the…
— Aretha Franklin
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Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity…
— Robert Gottlieb
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