Ivy Quotes - Page 7

• That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Government, People

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one of the three different kinds is worth anything, and that they're so tiny and so small a group that you don't need to be worried.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, White, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.

  Liza Campbell

  Beautiful, Character, Shapes

  Source: newwest.net

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• [Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws).

  Liza Campbell

  Personality, Georgia O Keeffe, Plot

  Source: newwest.net

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• At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although she is very independent, even somewhat of a loner, she is very affected by other peoples' opinions. At the opening of the book, her ideas of success and achievement are largely defined by the approval of others; over the arc of the story, I think that begins to change a little.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Independent, Thinking

  Source: newwest.net

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• Because Ivy [Wilkes] is just starting out as an artist, I wanted to focus on [Georgia] O'Keeffe's experiences when she was just starting out. I suspect there is a difference between being an unknown artist and being a celebrated artist. When nobody knows your work, nobody except you really cares whether or not you paint.

  Liza Campbell

  Artist, Differences, Focus

  Source: newwest.net

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• In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama went to Ivy League institutions like Columbia, which are reputed to be among America's top colleges. And yet, this very recent product of those American institutions is not publicly articulating an appreciation of the American founding or the founders and their vision for America.

  Paul Kengor

  Appreciation, College, America

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He's like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled "poor." He doesn't have any bad habits. He's never cranky with his kids.

  George Saunders

  Sweet, Kids, League

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm an Ivy League-educated lawyer, so you'd think the world wouldn't mess with me, right? But I've been paid $10,000 less than a less qualified man in the same role. I've had men I've worked with grab my leg or rub my back in ways that have made me feel uncomfortable. I've been taken off projects because I was pregnant, even though my pregnancies have been both been healthy and didn't impact my work at all.

  Jane Park

  Pregnancy, Taken, Men

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.

  India.Arie

  Believe, Blue, Media

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

  Mervyn Peake

  Night, Long, Heaven

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Wall, Lovely, Robins

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.48, Penguin

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• By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

  Ken Auletta

  League, Valleys, Breeding

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• Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Romance, Hell

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• Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Men, Gpa

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes and Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

  Ken Auletta

  School, Government, Engineering

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Jobs, Men, Evil People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Effort, Plot

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

  Hilary Mantel

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.achievement.org

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