Harvard Quotes - Page 6

• The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wall, Writing, Editors

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

  Lauren Oliver

  Garden, Eden, Apples

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• I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.

  Don King

  School, Iron, Boxing

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• I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

  Ice T

  Names, Might, Princeton

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• Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us

  Drake

  Weed, Stars, School

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• How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

  Andrew Manis

  Strong, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• "Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

  Calvin Trillin

  Law, Fool, Economics

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• Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

  Tina St. John

  Hands

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• My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

  Dudley R. Herschbach

  Stars, Science, Night

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they deserve, but $6 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan alone.

  Jill Stein

  Iraq, Soldier, Ongoing

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).

  Teddy Wayne

  Wall, Writing, World

  "'My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically': Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books". www.salon.com. September 13, 2016.

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

  Jill Stein

  School, Community, Medical

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Jobs, Taken, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

  Sherry Lansing

  School, Years, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

  John Lithgow

  College, Years, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Squares, May, Wonder

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• There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't
  'light and nice,' it's light and truth.

  Scott Kenemore

  Nice, Light, Yale

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• In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

  Bobby Scott

  Kings, Children, School

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• My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it.

  Eli Roth

  Father, Parent, Gone

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

  Al Lewis

  Mother, Struggle, Writing

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• I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Yale, Long, Lists

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

  Mark Hart

  Daughter, Teacher, Heaven

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