African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
I had actually studied political science in college. I had dreams of being a lawyer at one time.
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
