I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic… — Ara Parseghian Copy Share Image
We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying,… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped,… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
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