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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

Quotes by Zubin Mehta

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

Quotes by Zach Braff

I'm not gonna go to university. I don't want to do anything.

Quotes by Yung Lean

When I went to university, I was a music major. Timpani was my specialty, and voice.

Quotes by Yasmin Aga Khan

In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.

Quotes by Wolfgang Paul

As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.

Quotes by William P. Leahy

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Quotes by William C. Kirby

I love the University of Florida and never wanted to leave.

Quotes by Will Grier

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 the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

Quotes by Walter Kirn

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

Quotes by Walter Kohn

In 1986 I went to study at the Delhi University and that's where I took up theatre seriously.

Quotes by Vijay Krishna Acharya

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

Quotes by Victor LaValle

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Quotes by Vernon L. Smith

We ran into some bumps in the road at the University of Florida.

Quotes by Urban Meyer

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

Quotes by Tricia Helfer

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.

Quotes by Torsten Wiesel

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Quotes by Tony Campolo

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.

Quotes by Tom Riley

If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.

Quotes by Tom Anderson

I never went to university.

Quotes by Tobias Lutke

I lived at home while attending the University of Western Australia in Perth, while doing a gap year and - partly - while attending the Academy of Performing Arts on the other side of town.

Quotes by Tim Minchin

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Quotes by Thorstein Veblen

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

Quotes by Thomas Peterffy

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.

Quotes by Thomas Middleditch

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

Quotes by Theo James

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

Quotes by Ted Shackelford

I went to the University of Michigan for two years, and I auditioned for 'Bring It On' during my sophomore year, so I got to finish my sophomore year, and then I joined the cast - the touring cast.

Quotes by Taylor Louderman

When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

Quotes by Tamara Tunie

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

Quotes by Tabitha Soren

At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

I studied journalism at Binghamton University, even interning for NBC's longtime anchor Carol Jenkins. Before graduation, I told my parents I wanted to pursue broadcast journalism.

Quotes by Sunny Hostin

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

Quotes by Sue Grafton

I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.

Quotes by Steven Biko

The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.

Quotes by Steve Blank

I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year was 'I Got 5 on It' by Luniz, and the 'I Got 5 on It' remix was the joint that everybody was jamming constantly. And then it was also at that particular time that I became a fan of the Wu-Tang Clan.

Quotes by Sterling K. Brown

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

Quotes by Stephen Lewis

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Quotes by Stephen Colbert

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

Quotes by Stephen Cole Kleene

By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Quotes by Stacey Farber

When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.

Quotes by Sondra Radvanovsky

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Quotes by Simon Newcomb

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Quotes by Simon Mawer

The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.

Quotes by Shiv Nadar

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

Quotes by Shelley Berman

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

Quotes by Scott Hall

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Quotes by Sarah Zettel

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Quotes by Sarah West

I always wanted to be the best at what I did; I wanted that at university, I wanted the first-class honour and to be the best in class.

Quotes by Sara Davies

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Quotes by Sara Paretsky

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

Quotes by Samuel Wilson

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Quotes by Samuel Beckett

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

Quotes by Rutina Wesley

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

Quotes by Ruth J. Simmons

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Quotes by Russell Smith

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

Quotes by Rousas John Rushdoony

When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.

Quotes by Roshni Nadar

I didn't get into university, so I had to go to drama college!

Quotes by Rose Leslie

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

Quotes by Rosamunde Pilcher

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Quotes by Rory Kinnear

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Quotes by Ronny Chieng

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

Quotes by Roger Zelazny

Hillary Clinton is excoriating Donald Trump over Trump University? The Clinton scandal at Laureate Education, a for-profit education chain of schools and colleges operating world-wide, including the United States, is much worse.

Quotes by Roger Stone

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

Quotes by Roger Bannister

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

Quotes by Robert T. Bakker

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Quotes by Robert Robinson

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

Quotes by Robert Mundell

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

Quotes by Robert Darnton

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

Quotes by Robert B. Parker

I'm a Kansas City kid, so I love my Royals and Chiefs. I went to the University of Kansas, so I love the Jayhawks. But I live in L.A., so I'm a fan of the Dodgers.

Quotes by Rob Riggle

I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.

Quotes by Rob Ford

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.

Quotes by Rob James-Collier

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

Quotes by Richard Powers

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Quotes by Richard Levin

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

Quotes by Richard Ernst

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'

Quotes by Richard Ayoade

As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.

Quotes by Rich Eisen

I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.

Quotes by Rhianna Pratchett

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Quotes by Renny Harlin

I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

Quotes by Rajiv Ouseph

My sister and I graduated from Arizona State University where she was president and I was secretary of the College Republicans.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

It is harder to get into Deloitte than into the University of Pennsylvania.

Quotes by Punit Renjen

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

Quotes by Priti Patel

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

Quotes by Piper Perabo

My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.

Quotes by Pier Luigi Loro Piana

I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.

Quotes by Phil Heath

I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.

Quotes by Peyton Manning

I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Quotes by Percy Julian

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

Quotes by Penelope Mitchell

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

Quotes by Paula Pell

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Quotes by Paul Virilio

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Quotes by Paul Nurse

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.

Quotes by Paul Heyse

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Quotes by Paul Engle

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

Quotes by Paul D. Boyer

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

Quotes by Paul D. Boyer

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