Princeton Quotes - Page 2

• Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

  Mike Teti

  Country, Wall, School

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• At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.

  David Duchovny

  Senior, Writing, Virginia

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

  Alexandra Robbins

  Country, School, Law

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• As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teacher, Hard Work, Writing

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Study

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• What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Cities, Looks

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Fall, Half Time, Instructors

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• And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

  Harry Mathews

  Years, Navy, Sophomore

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

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• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Years, Listening

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• I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Thinking, Vision, Remember

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• I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

  Alonzo Church

  School, Math, Goes On

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• When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

  John Katzman

  Teacher, Princeton University, Minimum Wage

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• Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Students, Professors, Integrated

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• I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

  Ben Bernanke

  Coffee, Responsibility, Years

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• What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Class, Political, Statistics

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• I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.

  David Sedaris

  Mom, Dad, Jealous

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• Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Morning, Unique, Love Of My Life

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

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• One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

  Freeman Dyson

  Xenon, Memorable, Science

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• Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

  Dan Duva

  Funny, Years, Boxing

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• When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Graduation, Christian, Educational

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• I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Teaching, Optimistic

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, June 1, 1999.

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• As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  War, Princeton University, Eras

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• The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

  Carl Honore

  Space, Princeton University, Office

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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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, Harvard

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• That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  School, Boys, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.586, Simon and Schuster

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