I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type. — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose, — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind. — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley 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
[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
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
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
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
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 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
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 don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will… — Will Self Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested… — John Medina Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global… — Kimberlee Green Copy Share Image
If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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