Chris Gethard - I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Erma Bombeck - Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
Richard King - I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
Henny Youngman - This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Bobby Scott - It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
Bobby Heenan - North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
Jim Jarmusch - I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
Ted Nelson - So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
Martha Reeves - The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
Ruth Ann Minner - Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Alexa Von Tobe - For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
Claire Danes - 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.
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.
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.
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.
Shirley Temple - I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.
Patty Duke - My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Gene Wilder - When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
Brooke Shields - Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.
Sloane Crosley - It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
Peter Capaldi - The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
Kay Redfield Jamison - There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
Austin Butler - Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.
Winona Ryder - There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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