Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
J. R. Moehringer
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I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.
John Lithgow
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I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
Steve Sabol
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In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I did go to college with him, but everyone's always like, 'Did you meet Mark Zuckerberg? Did you hang out with him?' and I'm like, 'No,' because he was in a lab creating Facebook, and I was, like, learning about alcohol. Well, we did go to school, and I think I'm not really benefiting from that relationship in any way.
Colin Jost
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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
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The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
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I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.
Elizabeth Esty
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Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.
Alexandra Petri
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
Rachel Bloom
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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
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Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.
John Updike
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When Princeton plays Harvard, I'm rooting for Princeton, of course. Go Tigers!
Shira Goodman
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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
Louis Begley
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There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.
Brian Greene
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As a Harvard Ph.D. economist and U.C. Irvine professor, Dr. Navarro has been instrumental in challenging the prevailing Washington orthodoxy on so-called free trade.
Sean Spicer
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I tried to find a social niche at Harvard - a group, my group - but I was unsuccessful.
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.
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The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.
Catherine Asaro
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If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.
Parker Conrad
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At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
Jack Dangermond
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When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.
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