Princeton Quotes - Page 3

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

Rick Perry

Thinking, May, Economics

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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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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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I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

Richard Land

School, Ivy, League

"Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

Bernd Heinrich

Believe, Exercise, Princeton University

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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, Canyons

Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013

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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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Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

Thinking, Ideas, Race

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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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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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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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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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Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way. The generosity of earlier generations of donors made it possible for me to attend Princeton as a young student from Hong Kong, and I have always wanted to do all I could to assure that students in the future.. from the United States and around the world.. will have the same kinds of opportunities I had to learn from faculty members who are leaders in their fields at a university that remains second to none in its commitment to teaching.

Gordon Wu

Gratitude, Teaching, Commitment

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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

Orville Redenbacher

Agriculture, Indiana, Moved

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When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

Hugh Hardy

School, Architecture, Worst

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Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy:
(a) I think, therefore I am; or
(b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but
(c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.

Tom Holt

Thinking, Wife, Groups

Tom Holt (2009). “Ye Gods!”, p.169, Hachette UK

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Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

Freeman Dyson

People, Warfare, Germs

Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

Sonia Sotomayor

Running, Race, Yale

Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.191, Vintage

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If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

Daphne Koller

Jobs, Class, Skills

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Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

Unique, Opportunity, Princeton University

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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

A. Scott Berg

Book, School, Night

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In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

Richard Armour

Art, Men, Long

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Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

Ron Suskind

Daughter, Son, Winning

Source: www.esquire.com

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My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.

Tina Fey

Mom, Dream, Kids

"Paul Rudd and Tina Fey Talk ADMISSION, Improv, the Comedy Community, Participating in a Live Reenactment of SIXTEEN CANDLES, and More". Interview with Samantha Cheirif, collider.com. March 12, 2013.

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