74 Quotes About Columbia

  • Author Aretha Franklin
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    Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

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  • Author Curtis Gans
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    Some of the battleground states, particularly those with other high-profile elections -- Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Washington -- may have higher turnout. But since about 33 states and the District of Columbia were not targeted by the campaigns, it is likely that turnout will fall in most of those states.

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  • Author Daniel Goldstein
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    I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

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  • Author Ellen Gustafson
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    I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.

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  • Author Mark Goddard
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    I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.

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  • Author Tom Giacchi
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    I think of myself of helping keep him grounded and not let him forget Columbia and where we grew up.

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  • Author Trey Gowdy
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    I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

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