Dartmouth Quotes

• Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.

  Betty Shabazz

  Husband, Two, Doctors

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• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  Rachel Dratch

  Scene, Theater, Whole

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• At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

  John Dickey

  Education, Boys, Men

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• It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

  Daniel Webster

  Love, College, Said

  Argument before U.S. Supreme Court, Trustees of Dartmouth College v.Woodward, 10 Mar. 1818

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• A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

  Conan O'Brien

  Positive, Attitude, Unique

  "Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates". www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2013.

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• I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

  Mindy Kaling

  Swimming, College, Community

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.47, Three Rivers Press

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• It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

  Conan O'Brien

  Unique, Ideals

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.

  Jon Appleton

  Intellectual, Kind, Very Sad

  "Long-time music prof leaves for Stanford". The Dartmouth, September 30, 2005.

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• There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Graduation, This Life

  Commencement Address at Dartmouth College, 2011.

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• Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

  Conan O'Brien

  Path

  Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Play, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

  Aisha Tyler

  Art, Government, Environmental

  Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Education, Winter, Bitter Cold

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• I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

  Brian J. White

  Sports, Football, Opportunity

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• Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.

  Studs Terkel

  Art, New York, Children

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• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  Brian J. White

  Jobs, Wall, Athlete

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• Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

  Alan Kay

  Beautiful, Merit, Purpose

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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