Harvard Quotes - Page 7

• The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

  Joel Garreau

  Animal, Law, Training

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• Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Two, Rivers, Boston

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

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• I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

  Wendy Liebman

  Smart, College, Thinking

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• If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

  Derek Bok

  Effort, Quality, Action

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• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Depth, Tests, Fellowship

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• Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Book, Son, Doctors

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• The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Government, Apples, Google

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• If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, School, Credit

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• You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

  Stephen Fry

  Business, Work, Mba

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• Women, aren't they perfect? It doesn't matter if they're fat, skinny, blond, or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy-oh-boy women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first meet them and get to know them. Ache when you leave them. Joy. Ache. Joy. Ache. Joyachejoyachejoyachejoyache.

  Joe Pesci

  Love, Dream, Boys

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• As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.

  Conan O'Brien

  Graduation, Hate, Book

  Conan O'Brien's commencement speech to the Class of Harvard University, www.youtube.com. 2000.

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• There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete’s sake.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Special, Clubs

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

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• I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.

  J. Michael Bishop

  Years, Office, Arrogance

  J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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• I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

  Steve Sabol

  College, Europe, Ease

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

  Erich Segal

  Air, Different, Renaissance

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• As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

  Richard Attias

  Growth, Levels, Rivals

  "An African Ivy League" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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• There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

  Sherry Lansing

  School, Years, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We have way too many lawyers, the price for them has plummeted and you will have a miserable and unsatisfying life. Unless you get into Harvard Law. You could be in a yurt on the Mongolian Plateau and they'll say, "Oh you must be smart. You went to Harvard Law."

  Ann Coulter

  Smart, Law, Way

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.

  Martin Wolf

  Data, Risk, Doubt

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• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  Wendy Davis

  League, Intimidating, Felt

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• When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

  Bill Hader

  School, Night, Long

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• When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

  Helen Vendler

  Voice, Firsts, Chance

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• I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Cambridge University, Years, Peers

  "Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion" by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  Wendy Davis

  Mom, Daughter, School

  "ABC’s Jeff Zeleny Conducts Puffy, Shoe-Focused Interview With Wendy Davis". Interview with Paul Bremmer, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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