Best Princeton Sayings
75 Princeton quotes by 59 unique authors
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I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was…
— David Sedaris
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And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If…
— Megan McCafferty
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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has…
— Daphne Koller
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When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.
— Hugh Hardy
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I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I…
— Tina Fey
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I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And…
— Steve Martin
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I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a…
— Wentworth Miller
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Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team…
— John W. Rogers, Jr.
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If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma,…
— Simon Schama
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In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton…
— Virginia Postrel
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Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of…
— Stephen Kinzer
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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University…
— Barton Gellman
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I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at…
— Emilio Ambasz
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Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
— Emilio Ambasz
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I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind…
— Damien Chazelle
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Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
— Lou Duva
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Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
— Orville Redenbacher
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In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the…
— Eric Liu
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have…
— A. Scott Berg
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M.I.T.: I had a nervous breakdown this weekend. Have some fries. Caltech: I had three nervous breakdowns this weekend. Have some fries. Yale: I got…
— Kevin
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I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and…
— James Stewart
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Just delivered Class Day address at Princeton. Should have actually written a speech. Congrats to my niece Maggie.
— Steve Carell
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