Yale Quotes
124 quotes by 103 authors
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When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my…
— Angela Bassett
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My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't…
— Lewis Black
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I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University…
— Carol P. Christ
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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,…
— Amy Chua
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why…
— Jonathan Falwell
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Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and…
— David Halberstam
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The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very…
— John Templeton
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Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.
— Frank Costello
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
— Dorothy Parker
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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…
— Elyn Saks
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Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind…
— Jordana Brewster
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I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.
— Dianne Wiest
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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
— Michael Cerveris
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
— Herman Melville
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And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin on a treadmill and only eating salad. Sound so…
— Drake
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If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could…
— Tom Wigley
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My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push…
— George Weinberg
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