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Tommy Caldwell - I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.
Bruce Eric Kaplan - Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
Chris Gethard - I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.
Nate Dogg - Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.
Vernon Law - They couldn't sign me until after I graduated, but right after graduation day, I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.
Mohanlal - I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.
Tony Finau - I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
Frances Arnold - I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.
Stephanie Ruhle - I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.
Sharmila Tagore - I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.
Vishwajeet Pradhan - I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.
Moira Kelly - A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
Olivia Wilde - I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
R. Lee Ermey - I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
John Katzman - After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
Jill Scott - I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
Uday Kiran - I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
Kevin Spacey - After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
Bruce Eric Kaplan - I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
Tim O'Brien - I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.
Herb Ritts - Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
Bebe Rexha - I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
Jasmin Bhasin - I did my graduation in hospitality in Jaipur. When I was working, I started getting offers in modeling and did a few South films.
Dick Cheney - From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Campbell Brown - The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
Mack Brown - All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not, the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren't as important as winning.
Ayelet Waldman - I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
Chloe Kim - I missed out on a few proms, homecomings, might miss my graduation. I wouldn't want it any other way... it's worth it.
Stephanie Ruhle - Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.
James D'arcy - It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
Jerry Moran - One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
Sara Paretsky - I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
Frederick Reines - I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
Emma Bonino - The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Christina Aguilera - I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
James Tobin - Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
Joe Baca - Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
M. H. Abrams - When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
Faith Hill - Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Mark Kennedy - I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
Jim Evans - My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
Al McGuire - Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
Gloria Stuart - When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
Ted Nelson - In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Margo Jefferson - Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
Steny Hoyer - But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
Dorothy Hamill - My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
Douglas Wilson - Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
Elbert Hubbard - God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
James Madison - The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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