Columbia University Quotes:

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Two, Addiction, Abuse, Substance Abuse, Recovering

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Hate, Years, President, Columbia University, Trustees

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

- Julia Stiles

topic: College, People, Trying, Weird People, Columbia University

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

- Sidney Altman

topic: Opportunity, Waiting, Months, Columbia University

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

- Aravind Adiga

topic: Study, Language, Columbia, Columbia University

As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Validation of Continental Drift", pp. 160-161, 1977.

topic: Today, Students, Graduates, Drifters, Denied

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

- Steve Inskeep

topic: Law, White, Calling, Columbia University

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

- Steve Inskeep

topic: New York, Answers, Debate, Columbia University

As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.dawn.com

topic: Children, People, Suffering, Columbia University

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

- Dennis Prager

source: "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.

topic: New York, War, Evil, Modern Liberalism, Columbia University

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.

- Jay Leno

topic: Jobs, Wind, White, Columbia University

The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

- M. E. W. Sherwood

topic: Future, Intellectual, Academia, Intellectual Development, Columbia University

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

- Julia Bacha

topic: Study, Middle, Columbia, Columbia University

I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.

- Moby

topic: Average, People, Alcohol, Questionnaires, Columbia University

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

- Jedediah Bila

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Dream, Winner, Claims, University Professors, Columbia University

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

- Matt Sanchez

source: "At Columbia, First ROTC Event Since '72" by Shlomo Greenwald, The New York Sun, May 17, 2006.

topic: Military, People, Administration, Columbia University