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
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
Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
The only way that we can prove the relevance of Fanon in a certain way outside of some academic circles is to… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training… — David Simon Copy Share Image
There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
I think in general, it's just an interesting age to be at, after college. You spend so much of your life, being… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
I remember from my academic days, there were people who could never begin writing because they hadn't read every single thing on… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value;… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the… — Donald Kennedy Copy Share Image