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School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

~Enrico Colantoni

Topics: Amount Best Classics Confidence Dealing Enormous Gave Important Me School Very Were Where Yale You

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Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

~Erich Segal

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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Classics Jazz Kinds Like Music Prefer Tend Though

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I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

~Ernest Cline

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Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Born Chinese Classics Confucius Him His Ideas Idiosyncrasies Kong Made Master Means Power Which

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As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Artists Arts Bring Classics Create Down Excellence Folk Go Languages Level Must Our Out Roots Should Strive Them True Up

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My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities - with a degree in Classics! - and he sounds like a David Mamet character when I hear him on a business call.

~Faith Salie

Topics: Business Call Character Classics David Degree Graduate He Hear Him Husband Ivy Ivy League League Like Sounds Two Universities

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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

~Frances O'Connor

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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

~Fred Savage

Topics: Accounts Actor Been Classics Directors Everything Forget Lot Make Mostly Nonfiction Now Off Reading School Some Sure Taking Time Writers

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I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

~Gabrielle Aplin

Topics: Australian Big Big Fan Bob Bob Dylan Classics Dylan Electronic Electronic Music Fan He Incredible John Listen Lot Love Martin More Music Producer Should Still Successful Think Well Who I Think I Love Dj

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