Best Graduate Wisdom
372 Graduate quotes by 323 unique authors
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When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research,
— Sandra Lerner
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The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real…
— Al Franken
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My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he…
— Al Franken
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My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but…
— Jennifer Garner
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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose…
— Arthur Golden
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Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was…
— Alison Gopnik
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When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design…
— Christine Gregoire
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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings…
— Lev Grossman
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I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it…
— Lev Grossman
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Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My…
— Peter Guber
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why…
— J. Cole
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When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a…
— Michael Dell
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about…
— Alan Dundes
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
— Elizabeth Edwards
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Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
— Michael Eisner
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Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off…
— R. Lee Ermey
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North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
— Bobby Heenan
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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and…
— Faith Hill
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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder…
— Erica Jong
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Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock.…
— Erica Jong
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I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I…
— Michio Kaku
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