After Quote by Spalding Gray

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I…

— Winona LaDuke

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by…

— Walter Kirn

Growing up in the South, it was very patriarchal. When I applied to Stanford, I was told by a [male] college counselor, "You're never…

— Reese Witherspoon

People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

— E. L. Doctorow

My junior high school class, wish I stayed there. Illegal entrepreneur, I got my grades there. Blaming society, mad, it wasn't made fair. I…

— Nas

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number…

— Robert Evans

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

— Tatyana Ali

I got a PhD from Harvard and a few years later, there was a girl from Sunderland who hadn't got into Oxford or Cambridge,…

— Fiona Hill

I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me…

— Nadine Velazquez

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment,…

— Vince Cable

I came to New York in 1948 at 19, after one term at Harvard. Well, Harvard wasn't for me at all.

— Bill Cunningham

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and…

— Laila Robins