When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

We’re all dreamers.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I always entertain great hopes.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

My drive is other people’s success.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.