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DOUG KELLY I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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MAX MUTCHNICK The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
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FRANK STAFFEN I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends.
GWEN STEFANI I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
ANA GASTEYER To be honest, that last month of college was one big party.
ALEX ELLIS No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wa...
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DAVID KNOPFLER I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a...
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SAOIRSE RONAN Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
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BOOKER WOODFOX I haven't heard much talk about rabbit hunting. Up by Baldwin is where they start.
DAN MANNOR absolutely ridiculous. ... He knows it, people in Baldwin County know it, and I know it.
BOB RILEY Profits are better than wages. (Jim Rohn). Wages are better than nothing. - Really Jeannie
REALLY JEANNIE I was just really excited about getting college mail.
EMILY MINDREBO When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
WILL ROGERS I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.
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TODD TIAHRT We are especially pleased that we were able to offer a $5,000 college scholarship during the party.
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DAN MANNOR The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college cam...
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BRANTLEY GILBERT George Washington University College Republicans outstandingly represent the three goals of the Coll...
PAUL GOURLEY I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.
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RYAN BRAIN I must—to be honest—add that my ministry almost certainly helped me through my adolescence by gi...
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AARON SCHOCK I was really bad until I was 18.
ELIZABETH REASER There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
HUBERT SELBY JR. it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt
MARTIN VAN BUREN i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something...
WOW I really wanted to get this decision out of the way first. I'm going to leave it alone until the end...
JARED MITCHELL So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
JOHN PERRY BARLOW [The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop streng...
DAN HARRIS I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I...
CALLIE THORNE I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of...
THOM MAYNE I first met William McInnes in 1986.
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ANTHONY LAPAGLIA I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philos...
MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.
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CHANDLER CANTERBURY It did not become an issue until he ... became aggressive, frightening members of the party.
REESE WITHERSPOON There's a couple of other guys out there we're talking to. We like some kids that are unrestricted i...
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HARLAND WILLIAMS Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
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DAR ADLEY As I started doing really well, some college coaches started to notice me. By the end of my junior y...
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AARON LAZAR My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
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JAMES BALDWIN No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES BALDWIN Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou...
JAMES BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s...
JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES BALDWIN Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre...
JAMES BALDWIN Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu...
JAMES BALDWIN