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Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there. -- Woody Allen
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. -- Charles Morgan
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. -- Herman Melville
At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. -- Robert T. Bakker
I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. -- Ajay Naidu
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. -- Edgar Fiedler
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.. -- Edgar Fiedler
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. -- Anna Quindlen
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. -- Larry Wall
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. -- Malcolm Forbes
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. -- John Updike
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color. -- Catharine MacKinnon
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities. -- Charles M. Vest
I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard. -- Jack Canfield
A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. -- Tina Fey
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education. -- Michael J. Saylor
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. -- Margaret Atwood
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. -- Robert Reich
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. -- Anita Diament
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world. -- Raul Ruiz
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days. -- Ann Beattie
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. -- Derek Bok
I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why. -- Jim Harrison
The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. -- Alex Ferguson
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. -- Ulrich Beck
I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard. -- Tommy Lee Jones
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' -- Mara Liasson
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind. -- Bonnie Raitt
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park. -- John Towner Williams
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. -- David Dinkins
I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there. -- Selena Gomez
I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real. -- Robert Kiyosaki
When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people. -- Winona LaDuke
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. -- Ben Affleck
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' -- Henry Louis Gates
Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. -- Donald Trump
Harvard has enough panegyrists without me. -- John Updike
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. -- Margaret Atwood
Not a Harvard-type education, ... Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education. -- Chris Rock
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952. -- Harry Mathews
Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world. -- Pierre Trudeau
Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window. -- Eduardo Saverin
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I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times. -- Christie Hefner
Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college. -- Daniel Snyder
When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir. -- Tina Fey
I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School. -- Greg Brenneman
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question. -- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy. -- Seth MacFarlane
At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life. -- Tom Cotton
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. -- William Standish Knowles
Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion. -- Will Rogers
Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it -- Jay-Z
When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard. -- Noam Chomsky
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard. -- Alger Hiss
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it. -- Jackie Kennedy
My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance. -- Tyra Banks
You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. -- Donald Trump
The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. -- Robin Williams
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. -- Beatrice Wood
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail? -- Clayton M. Christensen
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They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. -- Chris Hedges
About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. -- E. W. Howe
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Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life. -- John F. Kennedy
Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there. -- Wendy Davis
It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. -- John Harvey-Jones
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying. -- James Bryant Conant
Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war. -- Joseph J. Ellis
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The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard. -- George Gilder
Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.' -- Teju Cole
Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us -- Drake
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. -- Alan Dershowitz
Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now. -- Tina St. John
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back. -- Michael Ignatieff
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops. -- Andy Samberg
Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation. -- Will Rogers
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable. -- Arthur Brisbane
I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU -- Ice T
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. -- Robert Darnton
I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade. -- Kristin Gore
I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe. -- Steve Sabol
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
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes. -- J. Anthony Lukas
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. -- Paul Hawken
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard. -- Malala Yousafzai
Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign. -- Chevy Chase
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. -- M. H. Abrams
I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. -- Samuel Parris
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard. -- Dean Norris
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. -- John Ortberg
Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home. -- Seamus Heaney
The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year. -- Seamus Heaney
If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. -- Louis Begley
I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard. -- Junot Diaz
If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard. -- Frank Sinatra
I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like. -- David Fincher
I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School. -- Felix Frankfurter
Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help. -- Jeremy Lin
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. -- Cass Sunstein
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. -- Andrew Weil
The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station. -- Maria Semple
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps. -- Mitt Romney
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. -- John F. Kennedy
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. -- Winona LaDuke
Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share. -- Lisa Randall
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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