J. Michael Bishop Quotes

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

There's no snobbery in me.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

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

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

No social class, intellectual category or art form is immune to the snob virus.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

I remember my guidance counselor, when I told her I wanted to apply to Harvard, she paused and said, 'That's in New York, right?' The funny thing is, I didn't really know. It was a few weeks before I was like, 'No, I think it's in Massachusetts.'

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.