The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades. — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
For me, love is very non-academic. Love, it’s a very physical thing. I don’t mean physical in terms of - I mean,… — Moby Copy Share Image
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our… — Ameen Rihani 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
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
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word,… — Walter Kiechel Copy Share Image
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is… — Hugh Nibley 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
I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a… — Nicole Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left. — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my… — Zong Qinghou Copy Share Image
I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would… — Andrea Savage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it… — Tim Berners-Lee 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 love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
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