Harvard Quotes - Page 5

• When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

  Michael Sandel

  Design, Political, Back When

  "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  College, Years, Evil

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

  Tina Fey

  Nerd, Chicago, Hiring

  "Lessons from Late Night" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2011.

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• Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

  Tina St. John

  Hands

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• The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

  Lauren Oliver

  Garden, Eden, Apples

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• Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Father, Might

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• My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

  Dudley R. Herschbach

  Stars, Science, Night

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• Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

  Frank Costello

  Nice, Kids, Yale

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• Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us

  Drake

  Weed, Stars, School

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• The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wall, Writing, Editors

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• "Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

  Calvin Trillin

  Law, Fool, Economics

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• I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

  Andrew Manis

  Strong, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

  Ice T

  Names, Might, Princeton

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• I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.

  Annette Gordon-Reed

  School, Law, Faculty Members

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• I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.

  Don King

  School, Iron, Boxing

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

  Jay-Z

  Motivational, Hip Hop, Insightful

  Song: What More Can I Say?, Album: The Black Album

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• Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

  Edwin Boring

  Education, Giving Up, Fear

  "Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology". Book by Edwin Boring. Preface. p. XI, 1942.

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• They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

  Chris Hedges

  Smell, Academia, Poor

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• If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Imagine, Let Me, Asks

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• Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

  Marc Andreessen

  School, Kids, Technology

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009.

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• I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

  Bob Corker

  Tactics, Failing, Princeton

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013

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• I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

  Randall Robinson

  School, Men, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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