“Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Playboy Interview (February 1966)
Source: Interview at Recanto das Letras http://recantodasletras.com.br/entrevistas/625556, 2007.
“Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Playboy Interview (February 1966)
“There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.”
Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) Chilean author
Ellen Willis (1941–2006) writer, activist
"The Pernicious Concept of 'Balance'" http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/1124.html, The Chronicle of Higher Education (9 September 2005) <br class="br">Context: Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college — that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home — is redefined as a problem.
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) French writer
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 20
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. VII
Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
[Pelosi: Higher Education Bill is Bipartisan Investment in College Affordability and in America's Middle Class, July 31, 2008, http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=116&sid=67fb11ac-0f16-45c1-8646-27ef9a9cdd0f%40sessionmgr107&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=mth&AN=32X1328555230, 2008-11-08]
2000s
“The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Televised address to the nation, quoted in guardian.co.uk (22 February 2011) " Gaddafi urges violent showdown and tells Libya 'I'll die a martyr' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/22/muammar-gaddafi-urges-violent-showdown?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487" by Ian Black <br class="br">Speeches
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 31
Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent
"Cui Jian: Father of Chinese Rock 'N' Roll in UCLA Global (3 June 2005) https://international.ucla.edu/institute/article/11612