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    I wanted to be a minister when I first went to college. You see, I was very shy as a kid, and couldn't figure out how to communicate with people. I guess I was trying to get people to listen to me, but I thought I was interested in religion. I realized very quickly that I just wanted to move people and be the center of attention.



    He's still on my team. Because I might would've done the same thing as a college kid when somebody took the bowl game away. ... You get mad and you get over it. Those guys, I don't really have a problem with it.



    I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

    Seventy percent of high school students already take the college entrance exam, so the component of that plus students doing better on motivation would be a positive thing.

    I had been an 800 runner and I loved the 1,500, but not the 5,000. He said I didn't have the pure leg speed for the 800 and if I wanted to excel after college I should run the longer distances.


    The only reason I am not at the restaurant is because I am moving my oldest daughter to college.

    What's especially noteworthy is that Brandon is not forcing shots. By all accounts he should be forcing more. Sometimes his bad shot is our best shot. He is going to make some college coach extremely happy.

    I love the tactile nature ... The fact that you're working with real materials. That's what turned me on at college. Making all the props and creating a little world that you can see for real.



    There are a number of segments of the marketplace that I'd like to see us continue to reach out to and Latins is one of those. Kids from the ages of 12 until the time they get out of college are an area we need to focus on. They're great through Little League, and then through high school we tend to lose some of them.

    If he'd been away at college, I probably wouldn't have let him bring them home. But since he's been to Iraq . . . and he always wanted to be a herpetologist when he was growing up.

    We cannot rest until all demographics are equitably represented in AP. It's clear that many minority students aren't receiving the high school education that's going to fortify them for a successful transition into college.


    One suspects there's a little projection going on in that passage, for the author does come across as a bit prim, always maintaining a dispassionate distance from her sister subject. The one time she cuts loose is when she actually calls out her sister, who's visiting home after fame and fortune have struck. I resent your comments about me to the press, ... Think about it, Janis. I'm in college, my sister is queen of the college circuit, and she says, 'My brother's really cool, but my sister's in a rut' Thanks a lot.'

    Governor Douglas wants to put scholarships into the hands and savings accounts of a thousand families for the next year so they can be absolutely certain those resources exist when they decide where they're going to go to college. The Senate proposal is nothing but a stall tactic that fails to deliver what working families need.

    Robbie was great and put me in a lot of situations, a lot of power play and a lot of penalty kill. Any time you can get a year of pro experience under your belt is great. Coming right of college I needed to adjust to the pro game from college and that season was great for me.


    If you look at the scope of our team, we don't have a lot of guys who have played in winning situations. Probably some in high school and college, but the majority not in the NBA. And when you haven't won, you learn on the fly.

    I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

    We want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.

    It's a steel town. If you weren't going to college, you went to the steel mills. Everyone worked at J L. Joe used to deliver fish sandwiches there. I used to help him. He'd take 200 orders there. It was good fish.


    I think we know how Michigan wants to play style-wise, but can we stop them - I don't know. In college basketball, it is always about style and how styles contrast. My guess is that it is going to be low scoring. We are not going to give up a lot of points. Whether we score enough points to win, I don't know.

    Lauren has an intense hunger to return to playing Division I basketball. In junior college, she was a team player that focused on her teams goals first. When we would call to ask about how a game went this year, she was never aware of her own stats, but she knew the score of the game. It was always about her teams success.

    There was a situation developing where Victorian graduates could have gone and done the College of Law course in NSW - a trend was certainly beginning to develop,


    If it wasn't me, someone else would have done it. They were saying the same thing when I signed for 2 million out of college. They were saying the same thing when I signed a 13.5 million contract after my second season. That's just the way baseball works. A week later you're the third- or fourth-highest because everyone else is getting more.

    The disproportionate influence they have in the media, in libraries, in museums, but especially on college campuses means that I think anyone would be wise to take the left seriously, meaning that they are a massive force in our society because they occupy positions of influence disproportionate to their actual numbers.

    I don't believe that the current standard in user interface is 'how it should be,' and I've got a school full of college students that agree with me. Web browsers look alike because Web browser interface design has been evolving for a long time, that's not the case with media players. There's plenty of room for improvement and Puma hopes to address those design issues.

    She's healthier and stronger mentally. Getting the college choice out of the way early was a big help. This year, she has a better understanding of how to create space and score based on what the defense gives her. She finds ways to get open, and she's a great passer too. If a shot's not there, she can dish it out to someone else.


    And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.


    What you're discussing today could be a perfect complement not only to the proposed energy school but also to the Ruckelshaus Institute and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, and other ongoing university initiatives, by linking the College of Business and high-level business executives.



    With the schedule set up so that their toughest remaining opponents come to Blacksburg Miami, Boston College, they have to be considered a threat to play not only for the ACC title, but the national title as well.


    I think everyone would be more worried if we played at 10 a.m.. College guys are a lot more awake at 10 p.m. I think the key is to not make a big deal of it. You stay in the same routine (as you would for a normal 7 p.m. game), you just push everything back three hours.

    He took over a program that was going through a lot of problems and he's trying to get it turned around, ... This would be a big step for him. (A win) would show they are headed in the right direction . . . That's a big job he's got, following Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama, 83,000 people. . . . College football is just very exciting. The fans are so loyal.

    I was thrilled to learn that he'd be the coach of USA. And obviously even more thrilled that I made the team and that I'd get to play for him again. I hope I am smarter than I was in college.


    Connie's a winner. All the colleges I've talked to about her, I tell them she's a winner. She'll hit a big shot or get the big rebound to win a game. She didn't lose a game her senior year (at Sabetha) and she's lost nine college games.





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