“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I was the first generation of filmmakers where videogames were a serious part of my life. I regard them as just as… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
One of the challenges in writing the script Call Me by Your Name was that I had to find something concrete for… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an… — Julius Sumner Miller Copy Share Image
Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful. — Tami Stronach Copy Share Image
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
'Babylone, Babylone' is remarkable. Emmanuel is fascinated by Mexico. He knows the country without having been there... I am amazed by his… — Brigitte Macron Copy Share Image
We are now living through peak stupid with the left, and this 'toxic masculinity,' 'white patriarch' nonsense, where they've now devolved to… — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example.… — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
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