Harvard Quotes
272 Harvard quotes by 218 unique authors
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I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially…
— Eric Kandel
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I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I…
— David Lee
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My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.
— Tyra Banks
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
— Vicki Lawrence
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At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.
— Tom Cotton
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Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.
— John Updike
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When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.
— John Updike
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Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.
— Daniel Snyder
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The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
— Mo Ibrahim
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I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on…
— Paula Broadwell
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Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only…
— Jorge Paulo Lemann
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The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose…
— Jorge Paulo Lemann
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at…
— Harold E. Varmus
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One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to…
— Yara Shahidi
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
— Yara Shahidi
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Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
— Lincoln Kirstein
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In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top…
— Jane Harman
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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…
— Bobby Scott
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This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before…
— Rod Parsley
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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the…
— Douglass North
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Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the…
— Spencer Bachus
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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her…
— Kenneth G. Wilson
Who Wrote These Harvard Quotes
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