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The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

Quotes by Paul D. Boyer

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

Quotes by Patricia Riggen

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

Quotes by Patricia Clarkson

I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.

Quotes by Park Shin-hye

New York, for me, is university.

Quotes by Ozuna

I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

Quotes by P. J. Soles

When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

Quotes by Oliver Sim

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

Quotes by O. R. Melling

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

Quotes by O. T. Fagbenle

I'm on the board of trustees at Boston University. I'm on the board of trustees at Jewish Family Services.

Quotes by Nina Tassler

I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do. For about six months, I did this job in recruitment and I was just so awful at it. I jumped before I was pushed.

Quotes by Nish Kumar

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

Quotes by Nikolaas Tinbergen

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.

Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Quotes by Natalie Massenet

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Quotes by Nancy Roman

I went to drama school at New York University.

Quotes by Molly Shannon

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

Quotes by Mohit Chauhan

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.

Quotes by Mircea Monroe

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Quotes by Min Kao

To be honest, I'm shocked the University of Washington's sports teams are called the Huskies. Why haven't the Leftists that run this entire state demanded they be renamed the 'Athletes of Size' so as to not fat shame anyone?

Quotes by Milo Yiannopoulos

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

Quotes by Mike Wallace

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

Quotes by Michael York

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

Quotes by Michael Specter

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Quotes by Michael N. Castle

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

Quotes by Michael N. Castle

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Quotes by Michael Gove

I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.

Quotes by Merry Clayton

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

Quotes by Maya Lin

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.

Quotes by Max Scherzer

As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.

Quotes by Maryam Mirzakhani

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.

Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

Quotes by Mark Kennedy

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.

Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.

Quotes by Margaret Wertheim

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Quotes by Manuel Puig

I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening to Gil-Scott Heron.

Quotes by Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

Quotes by Malcolm McDowell

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

Quotes by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

Quotes by Maajid Nawaz

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

Quotes by Lynne Truss

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

Quotes by Lloyd Alexander

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.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Quotes by Linus Torvalds

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Quotes by Lincoln Steffens

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

Quotes by Linda Colley

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

Quotes by Li Keqiang

After earning my university degrees and working for a few years, I wrote to NASA to request an application package. Seven months later, after I applied, I received a call inviting me to Houston to interview. That itself was thrilling; it meant that I was one of the 100 or so who would be interviewed, chosen from several thousand applicants.

Quotes by Leroy Chiao

For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.

Quotes by Lennart Nilsson

When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.

Quotes by Lee Ranaldo

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

Quotes by Lee Krasner

When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University.

Quotes by Lee Mack

I had gotten a master's degree in administration supervision with it in mind that I would some day be a professor, then get a doctorate degree and move up and eventually be president of a university.

Quotes by Lee Corso

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

Quotes by Lawrence R. Klein

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

Quotes by Lawrence R. Klein

In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels.

Quotes by Laurence Yep

I grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, and I went to college at Boston University. I majored in film. Then I came out to Los Angeles.

Quotes by Lauren Shuler Donner

I played volleyball for Brown University and loved playing there. I played all four years and was captain my senior year. Second team all-Ivy, academic all-Ivy. I really loved it. When I was graduated, I figured that was it.

Quotes by Lauren Gibbs

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

Quotes by Laura San Giacomo

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Quotes by Lars Mikkelsen

When I went to university I survived on jacket potatoes and pasta for three years.

Quotes by KT Tunstall

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Quotes by Kristin Kreuk

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Quotes by Koichi Tanaka

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Quotes by Koichi Tanaka

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

Quotes by Koichi Tanaka

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Quotes by Kitty Kelley

I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

Quotes by Kirby Smart

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

Quotes by King James I

Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.

Quotes by Kim Jong-un

Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.

Quotes by Kim Jong-un

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

Quotes by Kevin Kline

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

Quotes by Kevin McCloud

California's university system is one of the premier higher education systems in the world, and we should require that non-resident students pay a premium to attend it. The revenue generated from these fees can be used to increase affordability and access for more Californians.

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

Quotes by Kerry Bishe

The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

Quotes by Kenneth C. Griffin

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

Quotes by Ken Xie

When I went to the University of Texas, my first day of freshman year in 1994, I took a student tour, and I asked about the tower shooting. I was told, 'We're really not supposed to talk about that.' That was the official stance from the university.

Quotes by Keith Maitland

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

Quotes by Keenen Ivory Wayans

I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.

Quotes by Katy Tur

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

Quotes by Kathy Reichs

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

Quotes by Kathy Reichs

When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.

Quotes by Kate Grenville

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

Quotes by Karl von Frisch

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

Quotes by Karl von Frisch

Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

Quotes by Kai Bird

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

Quotes by Julian Bond

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Quotes by Julia Bacha

I'm going to prove I belong. There's a lot of skepticism about the type of player I am, where I come from, the University of Wyoming, obviously.

Quotes by Josh Allen

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

Quotes by Joseph DeRisi

I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time.

Quotes by Jose Angel Gurria

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

Quotes by Jonas Armstrong

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

Quotes by John Wayne

After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

Quotes by John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Quotes by John Vane

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

Quotes by John Sharp

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

Quotes by John Katzman

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

Quotes by John Henry Carver

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

Quotes by John Harsanyi

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Quotes by John Ciardi

I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.

Quotes by John Carroll Lynch

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