Oxford University Quotes

• Time is the only thing you can't buy.

  Nicole Lapin

  Oxford, Libertarian Party, Liberty

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• We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

  Kanye West

  Race, Oxford, Ants

  Guest Lecture at Oxford University, www.vulture.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

  Kanye West

  Luxury, People, Stolen

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.

  Kanye West

  Art, Past, Thinking

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Oxford, Ego

  "The Best Kanye-Isms From Yeezy's Oxford Speech" by Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

  Kanye West

  Art, Oxford, Goal

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

  Kanye West

  Oxford, Giving, Quiet

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• People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

  Kanye West

  Daughter, Children, Oxford

  "Kanye West at Oxford: The Top 7 Quotes From the Rapper" by Michael Rothman, March 3, 2015.

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• Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

  Kanye West

  Oxford, Sweaters, Car

  "This Was the Best Part of Kanye West's Speech at Oxford" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. March 4, 2015.

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• Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

  Kanye West

  Airports, Oxford, Luxury

  Guest Lecture at Oxford University, www.vulture.com. March 2, 2015.

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• People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Oxford, People

  "Kanye West compares himself to Picasso (again) in Oxford Guild address" by Zoe Shenton, www.mirror.co.uk. March 3, 2015.

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• The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Funny, Clever, Humor

  1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.10.

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• People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

  Kanye West

  Daughter, Successful, Thinking

  "The Best Quotes From Kanye West's Oxford Lecture That We Don't Completely Understand" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 2, 2015.

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• We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Oxford, Luxury

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• I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.

  George Galloway

  Simple, Israel, Media

  "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

  Samantha Morton

  Support You, Oxford, Parent

  "Samantha tells of secret stroke" by Vanessa Thorpe and Andy Capper, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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• At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Book, Reading, Oxford

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• I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Thinking, Oxford

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."

  Evelyn Waugh

  Running, Art, Morning

  "Black Mischief". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1932.

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• At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

  Alister E. McGrath

  Atheist, Oxford, Atheism

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• In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.

  Rene Dubos

  Meaningful, Running, Dark

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• I was invited. Oxford University Press is simply as prestigious a press as there is so when they come to your door and invite you to be a part of something like this, you say yes. It truly is an honor to work with them, particularly on a project as large as this one. The story of how they came to me is a good lesson though about the unexpected and creating new opportunities.

  Patricia Leavy

  Opportunity, Oxford, Creating

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• If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Oxford, Dumb, Google

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Oxford, Hold Me, University

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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