Princeton Quotes
75 Princeton quotes by 59 unique authors
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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I…
— Wallace Shawn
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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
— Woodrow Wilson
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As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
— Jennifer Weiner
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I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in…
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
— Harry Mathews
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The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than…
— John Katzman
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When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a…
— John Katzman
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My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply…
— Tina Fey
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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long…
— Mohsin Hamid
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The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since…
— John Forbes Nash
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Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how…
— Michelle Obama
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I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but…
— Rick Perry
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With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx.…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who…
— Albert Einstein
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