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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

Quotes by John Banville

I definitely would like to go to university.

Quotes by Johanna Konta

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

Quotes by Johan Huizinga

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

Quotes by Joe Jamail

I went to DePaul University Theatre School in Chicago, Illinois.

Quotes by Joe Keery

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

Quotes by Jo Cox

The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.

Quotes by Jimmy Johnson

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.

Quotes by Jim Pattison

We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

Quotes by Jim Crace

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Quotes by Jim Evans

It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.

Quotes by Jim Boeheim

I went to Syracuse University.

Quotes by Jessie Mueller

I have a masters in African-American literature, and I got a Ph.D. in American Literature. I spent a number of years teaching as a professor in the university system. Then I turned forty and decided I was going to be the woman I wanted to be!

Quotes by Jeryl Prescott

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

Quotes by Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.

Quotes by Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

Quotes by Jerry Costello

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

Quotes by Jenn Proske

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

Quotes by Jean Hanff Korelitz

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Quotes by Jay McInerney

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Quotes by Jasper Fforde

If my son had a baseless accusation made against him at a university, and it was making his life there miserable, I would suggest he transfer or take courses online.

Quotes by Jared Polis

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

Quotes by Jane Fallon

Ricky and I met aged 22 at University College London.

Quotes by Jane Fallon

University is great, but it wasn't right for me.

Quotes by James William Middleton

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

Quotes by James Tobin

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Quotes by James Nesbitt

No state legislature ever built a great university.

Quotes by James E. Rogers

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

Quotes by James Cronin

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

Quotes by James Cronin

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

Quotes by James Broughton

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Quotes by Jalal Talabani

I was a member of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan, but I was also on the Dean's List there. I took pride in my education.

Quotes by Jalen Rose

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

Quotes by Jack Youngblood

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Quotes by Jack Steinberger

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Quotes by Jack Steinberger

The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. 'The Big Five' was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.

Quotes by Jack Ramsay

I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.

Quotes by Jack Garratt

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

Quotes by J. Philippe Rushton

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

Quotes by J. Philippe Rushton

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

Quotes by J. K. Simmons

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

Quotes by J. Anthony Lukas

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Quotes by Issa Rae

My university work was not central to my education.

Quotes by Italo Calvino

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

Quotes by Ishaan Khatter

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

Quotes by Isobelle Carmody

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

Quotes by Iggy Pop

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

Quotes by Hu Shih

Davos is my university.

Quotes by Hubert Burda

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Quotes by Henry Taube

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Quotes by Henry Kissinger

YouTube is my university.

Quotes by Henry Golding

The discovery of vitamin K arose from some studies on the cholesterol metabolism of chicks carried out during the years 1928-1930 in the Biochemical Institute of the University of Copenhagen.

Quotes by Henrik Dam

Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.

Quotes by Heinrich Boll

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

As products of the victimology university enter the workplace, they are bringing their ideology with them.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

I wrote for my university newspaper and went on to freelance for a Los Angeles publication in my first months after graduating from UC Santa Barbara. I also interned at a couple of TV stations in the L.A. area.

Quotes by Harris Faulkner

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Quotes by Harold E. Varmus

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

Quotes by Hans Vestberg

I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.

Quotes by Haley Joel Osment

I'd trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.

Quotes by Gregg Henry

A lot of these kids have gone to Montana State University and become engineers, but they go to work for Boeing in Seattle. They would have stayed if there had been a job here.

Quotes by Greg Gianforte

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

Quotes by Grace Chatto

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

Quotes by Gong Yoo

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

Quotes by Gloria Allred

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti

Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.

Quotes by Gerhard Herzberg

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

Quotes by George Woodcock

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Quotes by George Stigler

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

Quotes by George Stigler

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

Quotes by George Stigler

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

Quotes by George Stigler

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Quotes by George Pataki

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

Quotes by George Andrew Olah

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

Quotes by Garth Nix

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

Quotes by Freida Pinto

In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.

Quotes by Frank Drake

My mum wanted me to go to university.

Quotes by Florence Welch

Yes, William E. Dodd was the - became the - America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a professor of history at the University of Chicago - mild-mannered guy.

Quotes by Erik Larson

Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.

Quotes by Eric Garcetti

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Quotes by Emma Bonino

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

Quotes by Emilio Ambasz

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

Quotes by Ellen Wilkinson

I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.

Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

Quotes by Elise Andrew

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

Quotes by Eli Wallach

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

Quotes by Elena Roger

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Quotes by Eleanor Holmes Norton

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Quotes by Edward Levi

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Quotes by Edward Hirsch

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