Harvard Quotes - Page 5

• Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

  Dan Brown

  Doors, Pyramids, Answers

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.

  Paul Laffoley

  College, Islands, Yankees

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  College, Years, Evil

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Government, Years, Creating

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• Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

  Jeremy Lin

  College, Asian, Stereotype

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• But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Fun, College, People

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• The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Puritan, Tales

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• I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Girl, Oxford, People

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• I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Years, Feels, New Yorkers

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• I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

  Junot Diaz

  Dies, Ifs, I Can

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• I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

  Paul Engle

  Illinois, Yale, Library

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• Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

  Al Franken

  School, Government, Careers

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.6, Penguin

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• I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."

  Henry Louis Gates

  Golf, Hockey, Years

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

  Daniel Goleman

  College, Meditation Practice, Class

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• There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

  Brian Greene

  Yearbook, College, Rooms

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

  Lev Grossman

  School, College, Years

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• I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

  Sean Hannity

  Yale, People, Degrees

  "Behind Sean Hannity's Desk". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Ideas, People, East

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• We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Dog, Cat, Mind

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• I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

  Michio Kaku

  Class, Effort, Graduates

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• When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

  Tina Fey

  Nerd, Chicago, Hiring

  "Lessons from Late Night" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2011.

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• I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

  Noam Chomsky

  Library, Looks, Want

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

  Frank Costello

  Nice, Kids, Yale

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• Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Father, Might

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