My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I'll go all out, ace every test No doubt, outdo all the rest Don't pout or settle for second best So I… — Katherine Lynn-Rose Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching… — Steve Weinstein Copy Share Image
I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days,… — Scott MacDonald Copy Share Image
Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time),… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please Bhagwan Shiva and ask for wisdom for the world instead of material things for… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we… — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies… The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books,… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
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