David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything."
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Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater."
Elizabeth I
Queen
"[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart."
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something."
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"An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives."
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"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember"
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"People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building."
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"We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs."
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"I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back."
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"Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men."
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"Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off."
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"Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John."
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"When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them."
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"I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone."
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"Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure."
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"An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?"
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"Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!"
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"Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back."
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"One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone."
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"People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family."
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"Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car."
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"The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily."
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