Best Yale Sayings
124 Yale quotes by 102 unique authors
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I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
— Harry Frankfurt
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You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
— Richard Foreman
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I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think…
— Katherine Moennig
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Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.
— Merrie Spaeth
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George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're…
— Peter York
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I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method'…
— Sam Waterston
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Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but…
— Robert Reich
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I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work…
— Kiki Smith
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Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
— John Waters
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I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well,…
— David Gelernter
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To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies…
— Edward Norton
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as…
— Barney Frank
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it…
— Lev Grossman
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I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
— Claire Danes
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By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless -…
— Claire Danes
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I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When…
— Claire Danes
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I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and…
— Paul Engle
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Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.
— Jimmy Fallon
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.
— Sean Hannity
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
— John F. Kennedy
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I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all…
— Shia LaBeouf
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