Harvard Quotes

• Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

  Woody Allen

  Mistake, Annie Hall, Taught

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Tired, Explanation, Aristocratic

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• Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Juniors, Chamber

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• It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Taken, Yale

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• At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Labs, Anatomy

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• I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Brother, Gone, Guidance

  "Joseph E. Stiglitz - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 2001") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 2002.

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• Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

  David Dinkins

  Children, Fun, Real

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• After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

  Harry Mathews

  Summer, Spring, Years

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

  Charles M. Vest

  Science, Groups, Mit

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

  Josiah Royce

  Stars, Real, Teaching

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• I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

  Derek Bok

  Attitude, Done, Way

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• I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

  Harry Shearer

  School, Years, Two

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, School, Boss

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• I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

  Billy Eckstine

  School, Long, Littles

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• I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

  Christie Hefner

  School, Business School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Girl, Guy, Political

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• I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Avant Garde, Students

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• But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

  Stephen Sprouse

  Summer, Fashion, School

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• In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Different, Fiction, Crowds

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• At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

  William Standish Knowles

  Strong, Math, Chemistry

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• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Perfectly Good, Cynical

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• Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Drinking, Learning, Hygiene

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• Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.923, Random House

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• A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

  James Bryant Conant

  Study

  Quoted in Time, 29 Sep 1986.

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