Best Yale Quotations
124 Yale quotes by 102 unique authors
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I got accepted at Yale but never went.
— Shia LaBeouf
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I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
— Shia LaBeouf
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I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more…
— Shia LaBeouf
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
— Herman Melville
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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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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man…
— Barbra Streisand
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The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
— Cass Sunstein
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Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale,…
— Gloria Trevi
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Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market…
— Janet Yellen
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
— Dorothy Parker
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And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or…
— David Nicholls
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Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued…
— Benjamin Carson
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A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.
— Richelle Mead
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Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.” “You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,” Jack said. “What’s glowering?” “Me,…
— Julie James
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up…
— Barry Schwartz
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When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to…
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
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No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself,…
— Unknown Author
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George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an American every day,…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you…
— Dick Cavett
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When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
— James Rothman
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their…
— Leslie Cockburn
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