Julie Taymor: Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling...

Quote	Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. Copy
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Quote: Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
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Quote: Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.Harold E.
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Quote: The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.
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Quote: I didn't even go to graduation.
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Quote: Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.
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Quote: Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Quote: Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
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Nora Ephron
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Quote: Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.
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Melanie White
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Quote: I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college, loved the work I was doing, and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones.
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Kimberly Bryant
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Quote: I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.
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Chris Gethard
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Quote: Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power.
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Larry Winget
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Quote: I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings.
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Katherine Schwarzenegger
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Quote: Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
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Quote: Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
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Quote: If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Quote: I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
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Quote: Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.
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