I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
My whole purpose is to bring what's hidden out in the open so people can look at it and discuss it. And… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their… — P. W. Singer Copy Share Image
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion.… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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