Christie Hefner Quotes

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

A college degree was very important for them; it wasn't for me. So I picked English because I'm fluent. I thought it would be the easiest to do.

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

I was an English major in college!

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.