Cambridge Quotes - Page 4

• I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

  Eric Idle

  Comedy, Tradition, Locked

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of thing, whatever it is, never happens here, not in our community. Then it happens, right in front of you, and you realize you were blind to it, that you forgot that intolerance and zealotry and viciousness are human currency everywhere, and it takes your breath away.

  Mike Daisey

  New York, Thinking, Community

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• At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my studio by myself since 1968 on up. And the thing is that my social life consisted of being involved in organizations like that. I would get people to come and speak, and speak myself and that kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Boston, Organization, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.

  Eric Idle

  Writing, Order, Practice

  Source: whitmanwire.com

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• Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.

  Werner Herzog

  Cambridge University, Talking, Korea

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• [My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is... I have the same name as my father, only Jr.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, School, Class

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• My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

  Sara Bareilles

  Night, Careers, Floating

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.

  Fred Hoyle

  Sorry, Memories, Wrath

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• I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

  Eddie Marsan

  Stars, Thinking, Oxford

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

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• I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Son, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.

  Gary Goodyear

  Jobs, Home, Ideas

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• The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

  Clive James

  Vocabulary, Way, Language

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. January 4, 2016.

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• I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University.

  Eric Idle

  Children, Cambridge University, Work Ethic

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, College, Kentucky

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• That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.

  Joan Baez

  Coffee, Voice, Luck

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.

  Salman Rushdie

  Special, Satanic, Study

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 07, 2012.

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• There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

  Alain de Botton

  Simple, Thinking, Expression

  "Alain de Botton: 'My father was physically quite violent... he would destroy the house'" by Robert Chalmers, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2012.

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• I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

  Diana L. Eck

  Home, Attachment, India

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

  Stephen Fry

  Tweed, Grows, Corners

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• No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

  Sophie Hannah

  Years, Magic, England

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• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  Naomie Harris

  Home, Leaving, Blame

  "Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Lying, Hands, Bikinis

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oxford

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• He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Usual, Velocity

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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