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

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.

I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

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

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.