Quotes of: Ivy-league Keyword

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Paul Giamatti

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

Paul Hawken

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

Rob Lowe

The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of "real people" with his friends, by which he meant people who struggled, like they all did. On the Ivy League campus visits, any sense of daily or long-term struggle had seemed airbrushed. A...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Robert Evans

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Power Base Selling: Secrets of an Ivy League Street Fighter

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told m...

Winona LaDuke

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

Bob Saget

I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.

Lorde

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

A poetry professor had once defined romance to me as "bringing two people together when every force in the universe is working to keep them apart.

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

In East Orange, initiations were completed by murdering someone, for no other reason than to prove to a tremendously cold, tremendously tight brotherhood that you possessed the hardness required to watch their backs.

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betraying people's trust.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.

Michael N. Castle

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

Ken Auletta

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