Academic Quotes · Page 9

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

— Naveen Andrews

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

— John Ortberg

I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type.

— Noah Centineo

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

— Michael Fassbender

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

— Edward Abbey

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

— Theo Van Gogh

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

— Vinny Guadagnino

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

— Les Back

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go…

— Kate Moss

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic…

— Austan Goolsbee

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with…

— Jessi Klein

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

— Salvador Allende

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a…

— Nicole Anderson

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.…

— Anonymous

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It…

— Miranda Hart

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to…

— Shukla Bose

DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed…

— T. Colin Campbell

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The…

— David Horowitz

Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While…

— Rick Santorum

What I want you to do is just take it as it is. Don't think too much. If you get involved with…

— Masaaki Hatsumi

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.…

— Albert Einstein

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about…

— Steven Pinker

As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than…

— Lilian Katz

To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist…

— Daniel Guerin

I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual…

— Harold Bloom

I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I…

— Carey Mulligan

Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to…

— Joan Wallach Scott

It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as…

— Alasdair MacLean

I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the…

— John Buffalo Mailer

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

— Hans Arp

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

— Azar Nafisi

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

— Anatoly Chubais

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.

— Rebel Wilson

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

— Mason Cooley

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

— Christoph Waltz

I didn't go to university. I don't have an academic background.

— Sean Mathias

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

— Sai Baba