Yale Quotes · Page 9

First, my congratulations to Yale on their success this year. The more film we watched, the more we realized what a good…

— John Desko

The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I…

— John Hodgman

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who…

— James T. Farrell

Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and…

— Kevin Sessums

I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting…

— Angela Bassett

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so…

— Jordana Brewster

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was…

— Leslie Cockburn

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary…

— Kevin Sessums

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

— Albert Maltz

When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from…

— Amy Chua

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

— Michael Cerveris

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical…

— James Rothman

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of…

— George Weinberg

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating…

— Robert Reich

Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained…

— Rush Limbaugh

He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't…

— Shaquille O'Neal

The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most…

— Meryl Streep

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in…

— Kehinde Wiley

"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you…

— Kevin Sessums

There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring…

— Andre Holland

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were…

— Laila Robins

Every time I get an opponent - I mean, every time I get a chance - I'm home.

— Pat Roberts

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

— Shia LaBeouf

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of…

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in…

— Sonia Sotomayor