Yale Quotes - Page 4

• I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Years, Childhood, Copying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

  Kevin Sessums

  Men, Term, Heard

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

  Kevin Sessums

  Kramer, Mutual, Knows

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• There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.

  Kevin Sessums

  School, Class, Shoes

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Mad, President, Speech

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.

  Kathy Bates

  Years, People, Roles

  Source: guff.com

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• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, School

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• I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States." She introduced me to the term "John Henryism." And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Black, United States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

  Dick Cavett

  Swimming, Class, Yards

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• Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Thinking, Worry

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• Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

  Charlie Munger

  Envy, Venture Capitalists, Stuff

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• John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Administration, Cold

  "Failed States". Interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, chomsky.info. March 31, 2006.

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• I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  School, Law, Might

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• The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Drama, College, Years

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others

  Trai Byers

  One Thing

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• To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.

  Randy Sandke

  Country, Art, Awards

  Randy Sandke (2010). “Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz”, Scarecrow Pr

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• The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University - thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness).

  Joseph L. Bast

  Years, Dollars, Cost

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• I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. I dropped out of Yale after two years to pursue one of the most uncertain careers - modeling. That seemed like a crazy decision, especially coming from where I came from and given what Yale is. Most people I knew told me so. But I was following what my heart was telling me I needed to do. I took the risk. It could easily have not worked out, but it did. Phew!

  Joy Bryant

  Crazy, Heart, Two

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Jenna Bush was cited for underage drinking in Austin Friday. Her dad warned her that too much partying at school could cost her a good career. At $400,000, he's making the lowest salary of any of his Yale classmates.

  Argus Hamilton

  Friday, Dad, Party

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• I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

  Will Davis Campbell

  Years, Three, Over It

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• There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.

  Sandra Cisneros

  New York, Awards, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

  Elyn Saks

  School, Law, Doctors

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• Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Grease, May

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• Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

  Gloria Trevi

  Country, Oxford, Guy

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• The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

  Cass Sunstein

  Blessed, Law, Creative

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