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In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.

Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

The B.C. spirit bear symbolizes the essence of the spirit of British Columbia. It is a powerful presence and a thing of wonder that lives in a magical land of beauty, grace and unbridled potential.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.