I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders.… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes,… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly.… — Krishnananda Saraswati 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
You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure,… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze… — J.C. McKeown Copy Share Image
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists,… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the… — Joseph Curiale Copy Share Image
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
