Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

Drew Gilpin Faust

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• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Chance
  • Hold

• We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• I played point guard my whole life.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Point
  • Guard

• It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Space
  • Driving
  • Healthy

• You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • You
  • Said

• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Blue

• It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Like
  • Going

• When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Funeral
  • Against

• There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • You
  • Limit

• The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Wise
  • Fool

• You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • World
  • Power
  • Courage

• And his money he cannot eat.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Long
  • Power
  • War

• So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • School
  • Experience

• He saw in this light two glorious personages, one of whom spoke to him, pointing to the other, saying, 'This is my beloved Son, hear ye him.' This was a glorious vision given to this boy.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Light
  • Vision
  • Son

• Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Men
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I think the thing that bothers me is that there's a component of the Internet where people can write really nasty things anonymously.

  

  Michael Bacon
  • People
  • Internet
  • Really

• The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Why
  • Effort
  • Drawing

• Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not.

  

  Obafemi Awolowo
  • Live
  • English

• As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust