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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.

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
Literature, France, Harvard
Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org.

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

Drew Gilpin Faust
President, Harvard
"Women in Leadership: Drew Gilpin Faust". "Nightly Business Report" with Susie Gharib, wp.nbr.com. December 26, 2011.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Harry Mathews
Harvard, Princeton, Left
Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tired, Harvard, Explanation

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
Book, Puritan, Harvard

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

James Bryant Conant
Study, Harvard
Quoted in Time, 29 Sep 1986.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Edwin Land
School, Excess, Harvard
Edwin Land's comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting as quoted in Danny Miller "The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal"(p. 126), 1990.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

Robert T. Bakker
Labs, Harvard, Anatomy

I couldn't have gotten into Harvard with a crowbar.

P. J. O'Rourke
Harvard
Source: www.avclub.com

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

John F. Kennedy
Juniors, Harvard, Chamber

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Jackie Kennedy
Men, Made, Harvard

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

Andrew Weil
Psychologist, Harvard, Skinner
"Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

Pierre Trudeau
World, Window, Harvard
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Jack Kerouac
Lying, Matter, Harvard
Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

Frank Sinatra
Done, Jars, Harvard

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

E. O. Wilson
Two, Harvard, Theory
"Wilson says selfish people, altruistic groups win: interview". Bloomberg News Interview, www.dailyherald.com. April 17, 2012.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

Christie Hefner
School, Harvard, Business School
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

Ajay Naidu
School, Harvard

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

Tina Fey
Nerd, Chicago, Harvard
"Lessons from Late Night" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2011.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

P. Chidambaram
School, Harvard, Socialist

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

Michael Ignatieff
Imagine, Harvard, Let Me

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

Eduardo Saverin
Dorms, Window, Harvard
"Facebook co-founder worried about privacy on Facebook". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2012.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Men, Sides, Harvard

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg
Kind, Harvard, Built
"Exclusive Interview: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on the Value of Viral Loops". Interview with Adam L. Penenberg, www.fastcompany.com. September 21, 2009.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

Wendy Davis
League, Intimidating, Harvard

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