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Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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A university`s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
Richard Hofstadter
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadter
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it
Allan Bloom
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’I`d have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn`t for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .`
Terry Pratchett
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’I`d have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn`t for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .`
Terry Pratchett
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In the university they don`t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
Doris Lessing
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
Anton Chekhov
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If you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that one day we would become Communist. (speaking to students at the University of Michigan in 1970)
Jane Fonda
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I didn`t go to university, and so, every time that I work, I`m looking for a teacher in a way. I`m looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.
Diego Luna
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I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I`m over it. I like Hollywood better.
Nicole Richie
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(1975 quote) "I first started thinking about being an actor when I was in college at the University of Missouri. I auditioned for a television play, and the director, who has some professional New York credits, encouraged me to pursue acting. In college I...
Tom Berenger
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The biggest flaw in being self-taught is there are gaps. You self-teach yourself something and you think you know something fairly well, but then there are gaps a university teacher would have taught you as part of a mandatory program. I would probably ha...
Woody Allen
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I just graduated from high school three weeks ago. It was so hard to keep up with everyone because of work. I`ve enrolled at California State University-Northridge, but my goal is to go to USC film school.
Michael Angarano
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I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn`t good enough. I got into city college because I didn`t have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take ac...
Dustin Hoffman
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I did the fashion modeling in New York until I was 18, then I took four years off to go to school in Idaho. I got my degree in nursing. I`m an RN and have a BS in Microbiology. I wanted to attend the University of Southern California. That`s why I moved o...
Tera Patrick
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I was the star of the class. I got the best roles. I was a very serious actor. Besides me, no one from that class has done anything in the business. - On his time as a drama student at Temple University.
Tom Sizemore
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I worked with murderers for a long time after I left university - one thing you realise about the gangs and the criminals is that it`s acting by another means. If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you`re going to shoot them, t...
Peter Mullan
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Kerri and I met at theater camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people.
Thomas Lennon
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When I decided to go to university I didn`t know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I`d never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in...
Kim Coates
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[Notre Dame University. 17 May, 1981]: The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we`ll ...
Ronald Reagan
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If it hadn`t been for Carleton [University], The Blues Brothers (1980) would never have been made.
Dan Aykroyd
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I was pretty uninterested in acting until I was about 17. I wanted to go to university and never think about acting again. I`d been very politically involved for a couple of years and I wanted a break, so I did The Sweet Hereafter (1997) in 1997. But I en...
Sarah Polley
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On her first acting break: "After graduating [from Boston University], I was cast in a Korean miniseries that took off. It was crazy! I became recognizable overnight." (In Style/Sept/2006)
Yunjin Kim
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I was thrown out of NYU [New York University] for cheating on my Metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
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(on his beginning acting training) I was frustrated at Hofstra (University), so I moved to Manhattan, worked as a waiter and at a fruit-and-vegetable stand. I lived in a cheap railroad flat on East 171st Street, took classes at Juilliard and finally worke...
Robert Davi
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, `The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.` I know it`s not very funny being a comedian talking abo...
Sacha Baron Cohen
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If I could be guaranteed work, I`d love to be an actress, but it`s so risky. The work is unpredictable and so it can be scary making a living in this industry. My plan is to go to university and audition at the same time. I like writing -- I`ve always tho...
Stacey Farber
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