Yale Quotes - Page 3

• At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

  Peter Salovey

  Want, New Things

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• I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

  Kiki Smith

  Pissed Off, Half, Students

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• Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.

  Robert Reich

  School, Law, Practice

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.

  Sam Waterston

  Communication, Inspiration, Play

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Boys, America

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

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• I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Reading, School, Editors

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• You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

  Richard Foreman

  Army, Wanted, Knows

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• I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

  Maya Lin

  School, Kids, Class

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• I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  College, Men, Years

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Grease, May

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• Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

  Gloria Trevi

  Country, Oxford, Guy

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• The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

  Cass Sunstein

  Blessed, Law, Creative

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• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Katherine Moennig

  Girl, Zero, School

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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, Mushrooms

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• One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

  Elyn Saks

  School, Law, Doctors

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• George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

  Peter York

  Father, Class, President

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• Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

  Merrie Spaeth

  Media, Strategy, Unusual

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• I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, New York, Book

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• I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!

  Allison Williams

  Girl, Fall, Perfect

  "Beautiful Minds: 10 Inspiring, Always-Stylish Women". www.elle.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

  Tom Perrotta

  Summer, College, Men

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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Democratic Ideals, Justice

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• I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

  Michael Cerveris

  Song, School, Italian

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• I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

  Dianne Wiest

  Kids, Intelligent, Careers

  "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

  Jordana Brewster

  Legacy, Lucky, Actresses

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

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• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, School

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