Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books. — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all. — Baron Annan Noel Annan Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I was like, 'I'm an academic!' I'm not at all. It turns out I'm not great at that. — King Princess Copy Share Image
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the… — Derek Bok 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
I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist… — Daniel Guerin 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
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
It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important. — Christoph Waltz 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
I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
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