Harvard Quotes - Page 13

• The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will end. And I'm certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, War, Congratulations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.

  Donald Trump

  Iraq, Today, Terrorism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

  Donald Trump

  Iraq, Want, Terrorist

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.

  Judd Nelson

  Senior, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I couldn't have gotten into Harvard with a crowbar.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Stellar

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.

  MC Hammer

  Powerful, School, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

  Bill Gates

  Graduation, Jobs, Dad

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.

  Lana Del Rey

  Believe, School, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Leader, India

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• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Socialist, Committed

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• I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

  Julian Castro

  Dream, School, Opportunity

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

  Louis Begley

  College, Gone, Literature

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• I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, War, Science

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• I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, White, Minorities

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• While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Son, Doors, Class

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• I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Years, White, News

  "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

  David Horowitz

  Ideas, Viewpoints, Politics

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• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Country, School, America

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• If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, School, Doctors

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• I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

  Jim Breyer

  World, Want, Higher Education

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• Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

  Dean Norris

  New York, Cities, Stuff

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

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• Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Education, Want, Requirements

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• That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Education, Years, Four

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• Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

  Al Capp

  Rights, Color, Skins

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