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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. -- Herman Melville
Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing. -- Merrie Spaeth
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. -- Dorothy Parker
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. -- John F. Kennedy
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
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
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. -- Shia LaBeouf
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. -- Carol P. Christ
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. -- Angela Bassett
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. -- Kiki Smith
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 you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. -- Shia LaBeouf
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 who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. -- Barbra Streisand
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 you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics. -- Robert Reich
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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 at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s). -- Peter York
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. -- Walker Evans
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. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
John Kerry's victory over Howard Dean has completely changed the presidential race around. Now instead of the rich white guy from Yale who lives in the White house facing off against the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Vermont, he may have to face the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Massachusetts. It's a whole different game. -- Jay Leno
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And Yale is November, crisp and energetic. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I got accepted at Yale but never went. -- Shia LaBeouf
I was off to Yale to be a lesbian -- Judith Butler
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school. -- Shia LaBeouf
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale. -- Richard Foreman
When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke. -- Courtney B. Vance
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. -- George Akerlof
One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others -- Trai Byers
I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale. -- Kevin Sessums
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. -- Robert T. Bakker
I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale. -- Sara Gilbert
I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years. -- Albert Maltz
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. -- John Knowles
As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price. -- John Lewis Gaddis
At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better. -- Peter Salovey
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. -- Richard Foreman
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. -- Robert Klein
I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough. -- Allison Silverman
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. -- Kevin Sessums
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' -- Gloria Steinem
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
A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine. -- Richelle Mead
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale. -- John Waters
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. -- James Tobin
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. -- Cass Sunstein
Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom. -- Frank Costello
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy. -- Robert Klein
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. -- Albert Maltz
I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that. -- Dianne Wiest
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.' -- Randall Kennedy
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion. -- Gaddis Smith
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. -- Taiye Selasi
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them. -- George W. Bush
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs. -- Michael Cerveris
The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth. -- Scott Kenemore
That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there. -- Kevin Sessums
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. -- Dorothy Parker
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
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
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. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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]. -- Kehinde Wiley
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. -- Edward Norton
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot. -- Al Jourgensen
I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets! -- Allison Williams
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.
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
Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you. -- Hillary Clinton
When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David. -- Kevin Sessums
The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!" -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!" -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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. -- Jordana Brewster
"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. -- Kevin Sessums
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. -- Will Davis Campbell
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
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. -- Leslie Cockburn
I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump. -- Tom Perrotta
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. -- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife. -- Kevin Sessums
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 scores of other places. -- Paul Engle
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. -- George Burns
One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work. -- Trai Byers
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. -- Gerald R. Ford
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. -- Larry Kramer
My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation. -- Lewis Black
What do I tell the kids? What I would tell your kids, I'm a black man in America who went to Yale, who has written books, who served a president and now... -- Mary Matalin
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, or in some cases, there are none. -- David Gelernter
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale". -- Kurt Vonnegut
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex (which, since it was a Yale Daily News poll, meant kissing). -- Paul Rudnick
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. -- Maya Lin
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 could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class. -- Dick Cavett
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. -- Tom Wigley
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 Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player. -- Joshua Prince-Ramus
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale. -- Noam Chomsky
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 I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer. -- Claire Danes
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. -- Frederick W. Smith
Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained for lives in government. They were all being trained for lives of government: CIA, State Department. -- Rush Limbaugh
Jenna Bush was cited for underage drinking in Austin Friday. Her dad warned her that too much partying at school could cost her a good career. At $400,000, he's making the lowest salary of any of his Yale classmates. -- Argus Hamilton
Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center... -- Kevin Sessums
Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained for lives in government. They were all being trained for lives of government: CIA, State Department. -- Rush Limbaugh
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? -- Gloria Trevi
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 and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices. -- Edward Norton
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 at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think. -- Barry Schwartz
Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country. -- Van Jones
I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids. -- Donna Brazile
You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did. -- Robert Creeley
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions. -- Derek Bok
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture. -- Jonathan Falwell
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. -- Cory Booker
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. -- Vinny Guadagnino
My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films! -- Lloyd Kaufman
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. -- Larry Kramer
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 proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. -- Barney Frank
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. -- Robert Klein
I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.' -- Kristen Connolly
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 and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. -- Janet Yellen
Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the system that works at Yale. There's the group critiques, and then there's the one-on-one critiques that happen in studio. -- Kehinde Wiley
School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best. -- Enrico Colantoni
And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin on a treadmill and only eating salad. Sound so smart like you graduated college, like you went to Yale but you probably went to Howard. -- Drake

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