Undergrad Quotes

#1. It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

Kevin Systrom

#2. I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

Alexander Chee

#3. I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

Andrew Pyper

#4. As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.

Paul McEuen

#5. I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.

Conrad Ricamora

#6. I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.

Leila Janah

#7. I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

Judith Faulkner

#8. I worked in a schizophrenic home when I was an undergrad. You learned to be jaded to the crazy things they would say to you, but there was one man that I always gave crazy respect to, even though he would say the exact same thing to me every single day.

Matt De La Pena

#9. As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Rashid Johnson

#10. I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

Katie Lowes

#11. FUCK. This is not good. I'm allergic to whiskey. I think maybe I should explain this to her, and request a different alcohol. Then I remember that I am awesome. Even fighting through anaphylactic shock, I can STILL bury this emotionally unstable, bulimic undergrad.

Tucker Max

#12. Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

Lee Thompson Young

#13. I didn't start acting until after undergrad!

Conrad Ricamora

#14. I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

Andre Holland

#15. I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

Julie Powell

#16. Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

#17. I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

Lupita Nyong'o

#18. We all have our moments of initiation into the Society of Former Negroes. Mine was in a class in undergrad when I was asked to give the black perspective, only I had no idea what that was. So I just made something up.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#19. There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.
Charlie Gordan

Daniel Keyes

#20. I want him to feel what I felt every time he cut my heart with the knife of betrayal.

Jill Thrussell

#21. We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

James Hillman

#22. Let's be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there's a lot of money to be made from the Latino market. It all comes down to economics. That's what's happening. So what! We're in style. I mean, that's silly, but I'm taking full advantage of that.

Paula Garces

#23. The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

Thurgood Marshall

#24. It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

James Scott

#25. The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

Chris Matthews

#26. I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.

F.B. Meyer

#27. A person or group of people can suffer real damage, real distortion, if the people or society around them mirror back to them a confining or demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves.24

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#28. It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

George Eliot