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I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
Alistair Brownlee
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Dad
Cambridge
Footsteps
Medicine
Mum
Term
University
Doctor
Followed
Potentially
Studying
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The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.
Ricky Hatton
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Professional Boxer
Boxers
Cambridge
Council
Estates
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
Stephen Fry
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Comedian
Cambridge
Grows
Tweed
Somewhere
Corner
Quietly
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
Richard Dawkins
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Ethologist
Cambridge
Chosen
Colleagues
Equipped
Graduated
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By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
Claire Tomalin
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Author
Cambridge
People
Quiet
Remember
Remember Me
Time Me Remember
Behaved
By The Time
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
Peter Ackroyd
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Biographer
Cambridge
Ordinary
Accent
Cockney
Efforts
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I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
Emma Donoghue
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Playwright
Cambridge
Habit
Housing
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My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
Richard Ayoade
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Comedian
Cambridge
England
Heard
Oxford
University
Brought
Universities
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Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.
Neil Robertson
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Australian
Cambridge
Borrow
Pocket
Quid
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
Aaron Klug
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Chemist
Cambridge
Dominion
Goes On
Laboratory
Physics
Colonies
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John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
Terry Gilliam
/
Screenwriter
New York
Cambridge
Circus
Team
Team Effort
Years
John
Produced
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The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
James Tobin
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Cambridge
Good Fortune
Return
Ringo
Spring
Good Fortune Good Fortune
Elizabeth
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In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
Elizabeth Blackburn
/
Cambridge
Dna
Inventing
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Fred
Map
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I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.
Emma Rigby
/
Cambridge
Oxford
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He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.
Sydney Brenner
/
Researcher
April
Cambridge
Dna
Structure
Watson
Me See Go
Francis
Jim
Solved
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When I was in grad school, my husband and I used to house sit for a couple in Harvard Square, so we have these amazing memories of great Cambridge summers.
Laura Van Den Berg
/
Cambridge
Grad
Grad School
Harvard
Square
Summers
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Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
Anne Campbell
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Politician
Britain
Cambridge
People
Relevant
Vote
Particularly
Thriving
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I do love a good salad, so Sweetgreen has been great. But my favorite Cambridge restaurant overall is Darwin's - that's the greatest restaurant of all time.
Jack Schlossberg
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Cambridge
Love Time Good
Darwin
Overall
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The enormity of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's global influence is daunting, especially for Kate, whose look is admired, copied, and analysed everywhere.
Ingrid Seward
/
Cambridge
Influence
Everywhere
Admired
Copied
Daunting
Duke
Enormity
Whose
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
Naomie Harris
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Actress
Home
Blame
Cambridge
Leaving
Leaving Home
Ready
Shock
University
Cultural
Wrench
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Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.
Jo Cox
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Cambridge
Class
Holiday
Odd
Shock
Anywhere
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My wife is also from Harvard and we do have some family in the Cambridge area so we try to make it back at least once a year. We really enjoyed our time out there.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
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Cambridge
Harvard
Our Time
Time Family Wife
Family Time Wife
Once A Year
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
Frederik Pohl
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Writer
Cambridge
Grades
Science Fiction
Hawking
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I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
/
Accepted
Archaeology
Cambridge
Chinese
University
Dig
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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.
Sylvia Plath
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Poet
Cambridge
Dickens
Series
Among
Caricature
Particularly
Table
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Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
John G. D. Clark
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Cambridge
Elsewhere
England
Paid
Pride
Period
Master
Visits
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Life at home wasn't very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn't go back until after Cambridge when I went to look after my mother when she was dying.
Roger Scruton
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Philosopher
Cambridge
Dying
Life Time Good
By The Time
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The use of data for political purposes wasn't invented by Cambridge Analytica. It started when I was on the Obama campaign in 2007-2008. We invented social media strategy.
Brittany Kaiser
/
Cambridge
Obama Campaign
Strategy
Political Social Media Media
Purposes
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When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.
Tara Westover
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Cambridge
Good Life
Life Work Good
Gradual
Ward
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The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 - doesn't disqualify me from serving on the board of the OfS.
Toby Young
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Journalist
Cambridge
Serving
Taught
University
Board
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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.
Lois Lowry
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Writer
Cambridge
Ebay
Pages
Showing Up
Authors
Carefully
Donated
Showing
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
Ann Beattie
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Writer
Aim
Cambridge
Class
Harvard
Photography
Teaching
Classes
Project
Incorporated
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
Patrick White
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Writer
Cambridge
Eighteen
Return
Rising
Life Myself Me
Adapt
Persuaded
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In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Tim Hunt
/
Cambridge
Department
Medicine
Albert
Einstein
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I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
Tom Hiddleston
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Actor
Acting
Cambridge
Committed
Community
Serious
Hugh
Ian Mckellen
Thompson
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I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps', and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose.
Alexander Nix
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Bribe
Cambridge
Purpose
Untrue
State
Condone
Engage
Material
Nor
So-Called
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath
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Poet
Women
Cambridge
Fake People
Independent
Accept
Male
Apparently
Complex
Feat
Merely
Vital
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Philadelphia's Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.
Roger Morris
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Boston
Cambridge
New England
Philadelphia
Charles
River
Separates
Waters
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As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
Merton Miller
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Economist
Cambridge
Customers
Decision
Massachusetts
Part Time
Reports
Undergraduate
Writing
Decisions
Advising
Basis
Portfolio
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Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.
Hannah Murray
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Actress
Cambridge
Efficient
My Time
Time Good Done
Time Good I Am
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell
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Philosopher
Travel
Adventure
Belief
Cambridge
Knowing
Useful
Gradually
Travels
Wore
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Economics is a good degree to have but the subject is very theoretical at Cambridge and I found it frustrating that you can't apply a lot of the models to particular circumstances.
Konnie Huq
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Television Presenter
Cambridge
Circumstances
Frustrating
Models
Particular
Theoretical
Apply
Degree
Subject
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I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
Graham Coxon
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Musician
Acoustic Guitar
Becoming
Cambridge
Guitar
Littles
Lovely
Possession
Prize
Acoustic
Bought
Cleaned
Festival
Folk
Suppose
Quickly
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When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had double firsts from Oxford or Cambridge, they were all bright as new pins.
A. A. Gill
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Writer
Cambridge
Competing
Oxford
Pins
Sunday
Bright
Double
Joined
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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.
John Pople
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Chemist
Cambridge
Lists
Nobel
Numbers
Years
Acquainted
Became
Earlier
Number
Large
Large Number
List
Note
Passed
Whom
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Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.
Sophie Hannah
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Poet
Cambridge
Convinced
Heaven
Nobel
Nobel Prize
People
Prize
Winning
Bright
Nicest
Look
Round
Look World I Am
Walk Look World
Off
Walk
Walk World I Am
Incredibly
Place
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I think everyone in the United States has such admiration for the British royal family, and with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there's a whole new interest in the younger generation.
Anna Wintour
/
Magazine Editor
Admiration
Cambridge
Royal
Royal Family
Younger Generation
Duke
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In the early days of our marriage, Stephen could walk around Cambridge on my arm - a stick on one hand, leaning on me with the other. I carried a baby on one arm and Stephen on the other.
Jane Hawking
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Cambridge
Arm
Carried
Early Days
Leaning
Stick
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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
Daniel Tammet
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Writer
Cambridge
Captured
Reciting
Achieved
Diagnosed
Finally
Professor
Simon
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In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.
Mary Beard
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Professor
Cambridge
Intelligent
Ordinary
Oxford
Real Life
Hard-Working
Universities
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