Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

Drew Gilpin Faust

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• I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Eye

• I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Fun
  • Control
  • Find

• With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Fight
  • Knew
  • Won

• Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Present
  • Like

• The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Black
  • Struggle

• I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • American
  • Science
  • Small

• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Development
  • Economic
  • Islam

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • See
  • Planet
  • Limitations

• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  

  Pat Morita
  • Remember
  • You
  • Write

• Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Experience
  • Me

• One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• 'The Goddesses'? I don't believe the term is good enough, but when you're bound by these terrestrial descriptions, you must use the best choice available.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Good
  • Believe

• No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Team
  • Control

• In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Perfect
  • Deep
  • Trump

• Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Safety

• I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

  

  Bjork
  • People

• I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • Up
  • Church
  • Catholic

• Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People

• When I make my entrance to the ring or give someone a high-five, I want them to feel happy and always remember that moment.

  

  Bayley
  • Moment
  • Ring
  • High Five

• Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • City
  • Crime
  • Reputation

• I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust