I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
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ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We... GARY F EVANS... Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how yo... TORY BURCH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about... 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JULIA STILES I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that intere... JAMES GANDOLFINI Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using th... HOWARD GARDNER Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But... ZIYI ZHANG I don't like this," he said. I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was... RACHEL CAINE I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I... HIROMI UEHARA I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll... OSCAR ROBERTSON Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have... BARBRA STREISAND In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force ... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... DANICA PATRICK I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be grea... ALEXA CHUNG To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing. EDWARD KITSIS You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som... CAROL BURNETT Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when... URS FISCHER Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration,... ELLA FITZGERALD I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job. RUBY WAX Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! 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