Clint Smith - School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
Chase Elliott - There's no guarantees in anything you do. But I hope there are many more weekends I can race in my life, and high school graduation you only do once.
Bob Iger - If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.
Frances Arnold - I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.
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.
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.
Nate Dogg - Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.
Vishwajeet Pradhan - I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.
Bruce Eric Kaplan - Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
Mohanlal - I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.
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.
Vinod Khanna - After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act in films.
Pankaj Kapur - School days were very special to me as I never found the time to complete my graduation.
Alok Nath - I did schooling and graduation from Delhi and then went to the National School of Drama.
Vatsal Sheth - I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.
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.
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.
Chris Gethard - I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.
Tommy Caldwell - I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ayelet Waldman - I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
Stephanie Ruhle - Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.
Olivia Wilde - I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Moira Kelly - A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
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.
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.
Jill Scott - I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on 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.
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.
M. H. Abrams - When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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.
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.
Campbell Brown - The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
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.
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.
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?
Ted Nelson - In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Ted Nelson - So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
Jim Jarmusch - I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
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.
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