My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university, — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
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In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear. — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
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Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
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I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working,… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
As a transplanted northerner, London has always signified big-city glamour and cosmopolitanism. It's part of what drew me here after university. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no… — Mark Yudof Copy Share Image
Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on… — Gerhard Herzberg Copy Share Image
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been .… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All I've got to make sure I do is what's best for my team and the university I work at. I want… — Tom Izzo Copy Share Image
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Mississippi State University and other institutions are established leaders in the development and integration of unmanned aerial systems. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I went to university in Birmingham in the 1970s just when the curry revolution was starting in Britain. — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I was very naughty. That's the reason I didn't go very much to the university, because I was partying with my friends… — Bianca Balti Copy Share Image
The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career. — Chris Mullin Copy Share Image
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