Yale Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Lesson, School, Hair

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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• The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Political

  "A Charge to Keep". Book by George W. Bush, 1999.

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• I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Girl, Drama, School

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• I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Men, Literary Theory, Derrida

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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 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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• 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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• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  Indra Nooyi

  America, Boston, Years

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

  Merrie Spaeth

  Media, Strategy, Unusual

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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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• 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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• 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 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's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Fall, Greatness, Class

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• So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Guy, Speech, Evening

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: Don't take no s**t from anybody!". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 13, 2012.

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• There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and '73 even though his commanding officers are saying he never reported. I think what's even more disturbing is that he received enough credits to graduate from Yale.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, President, Facts

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• Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

  Edmund Morgan

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

  Angela Bassett

  Dream, Growing Up, Average

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  Camille Paglia

  School, Men, Honor

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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