Yale Quotes

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Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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 - and about half the students got really pissed off.

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, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

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 justice and of equal opportunity.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

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 than Steven Spielberg.

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

Every time I get an opponent - I mean, every time I get a chance, I’m home.

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

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.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

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.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

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 of great.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.