Lisa Joy Quotes

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

I didn't want to go to any school but Duke: the best of the best.

Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

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

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

I went to Yale for undergrad.

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

All of my contemporaries in L.A. are all graduates of either Yale, Julliard, Trinity. The best of the bunch come from that.