#radu

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. ↗

— Steven Chu

#criterion #design #devices #fourth #grade

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. ↗

— Eric Church

#college #country #country music #dad #discussion

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#any #effect #even #gain #gradually

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#graduate #university #well

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#common #did #funds #graduated #i

And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before. ↗

— Joel Coen

#back #before #cut #film #first

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. ↗

— James Cronin

#chicago #education #entered #graduate #graduate student

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#country #development #event #gradual #hence

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#already #being #done #early #got

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day. ↗

— Claire Danes

#day #differentiated #educated #found #graduated