Harvard Quotes - Page 3

• That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

  Elliott Carter

  Writing, Style, Pieces

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• There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, France, Reader

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org.

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• 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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• You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

  John Hickenlooper

  Powerful, People, Colorado

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• When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

  M. H. Abrams

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Interesting, Challenges, Humanity

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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 had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

  John Forbes Nash

  Choices, Competition, Fellowship

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• Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

  William C. Kirby

  Jobs, Leader, Political

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• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  Larry Wall

  Light, Law, Temperature

  Usenet article, 1997.

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• It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

  Ann Veneman

  Country, Small Numbers, Assessment

  "Agriculture chief: U.S. learned from British mad cow epidemic". www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.

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• I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

  Harry Mathews

  Princeton, Left

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Movie, School, Kids

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• Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Success, School, Impact

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• The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

  Robin Williams

  Dead Poets Society, Earth, May

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

  Peter Thiel

  People, Gone, Able

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• Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Dorms, Window, Built

  "Facebook co-founder worried about privacy on Facebook". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Country, Educational, School

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• I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  President

  "Women in Leadership: Drew Gilpin Faust". "Nightly Business Report" with Susie Gharib, wp.nbr.com. December 26, 2011.

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• Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

  Erich Segal

  Victory, Able, Loser

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

  Will Rogers

  Education, School, This Generation

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

  Frank Sinatra

  Done, Jars, Laboratory

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• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  Russell Baker

  School, Yale, Ivy

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