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Jai Ganesh

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College Quotes - V

College Quotes - V

1. My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it. - Zubin Mehta

2. The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936. - M. S. Swaminathan

3. I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress. - Sharmila Tagore

4. A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach. - Matthew McConaughey

5. When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant. - Manushi Chhillar

6. I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college. - Joe Biden

7. I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. - Colin Powell

8. I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there. - Edwin Moses

9. I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship. - Edwin Moses.

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