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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.
I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.
University was a shock to the system. At times, I really thought I couldn't do it. It's the same with 'Strictly.' I'm completely out of my comfort zone.
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.
My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
When we started in university we were wearing lampshades on our heads and playing wacky covers like 'I'm a Believer.'
I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.
I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.
The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life at the University of Texas.
I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
I don't want people to feel like I'm upset or bitter with C-Webb or the University of Michigan. I love them both.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.
From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.
My father died when I was 15, and my dad was a professional wrestler but as well as a national amateur champion at the University of Nebraska.
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.
I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.
When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.
What incentive does a university have to control costs when it has a steady supply of students being lent federal funds?
My son is a lecturer at Bristol University in anthropology. His degree was in, get this, human mating strategies - sex!
The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
I was 21 years old when I first signed with WWE. I finished my university degree and came straight to America.
In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.
I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s on to the '70s.
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'
No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.
My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.
Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.
People think I just dropped out of university and went, 'Mum, Dad, get me a job in television.'
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.
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity. . . .
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
