Top 300 Yale Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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.
Things were so much better in the 1970s, when I was a young women undergraduate at Yale. I am grateful to have come of age during that period.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
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.
A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.
Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.
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.
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
I first studied the effect of plants on humans for my Yale thesis... and it was a 185-page thesis, and luckily I got honors on it.
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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.
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 in the late 1960's.
I never thought that I would pursue a cappella music. I went to Yale College and I was going to go into the medical field.
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?
As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places.
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.
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].
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.
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
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.
I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with.
I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
I loved that outrageous, creative style of city ball. 'Logic is the death of art,' they taught me at Yale. Maybe in basketball, too.
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
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 came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.
Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I can speak Mandarin fluently.
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
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.
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.
From the Marines, from Ohio State, from Yale, from other places, people have really stepped in and ensured that they filled that social capital gap that it was pretty obvious, apparently, that I had.
When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do.
I've been an entrepreneur for the past 12 years, since I graduated from Yale undergrad with a degree in Physics and Philosophy, and realized I had no actual marketable job skills.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
See, I would never have Beyonce up here public speaking. She's not good at it. Solange was just at Yale. She's incredible at it.
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
Well, the thing that I realized - I had this very happy, rosy memory of Yale. And I had even described it in the past as my Hogwarts.
