I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis. — Kelela Copy Share Image
I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys… — Freddie Prinze Copy Share Image
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers;… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at… — Yousef Saanei Copy Share Image
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It was always academic first, and I always put school work before football - although I did put a lot into football! — Harry Maguire Copy Share Image
“If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
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