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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
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When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.
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I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
Wendy Liebman
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When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.


Mitch Leigh
I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.
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When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.


Courtney B. Vance
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As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
Paul Watson
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My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.


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Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.


Woody Allen
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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'The Whale' was in the category of so-called serious music, and yet it brings together a wide series of musical styles. It was influenced by people such as The Beatles, the spirit of the times, and I think 'The Whale' certainly had a pop element to it.
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At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.


William Standish Knowles
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.
Daniel Goleman
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Shamu the killer whale is Sea World's Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions of three parks and the focus of their marketing efforts.
Nina Easton
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I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.


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


Wendy Davis
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I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.


Greg Brenneman
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I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
Peter Beard
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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
Adam Sandler
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I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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