Academy Quotes
252 quotes by 222 authors
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I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.
— Alyson Hannigan
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In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how…
— John Maeda
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two…
— Harold Bloom
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It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night.
— Unknown Author
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If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award,…
— Dana Hill
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Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the…
— Helen Caldicott
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I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
— Charlize Theron
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as…
— Edvard Munch
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Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives…
— Roman Abramovich
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Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who…
— Joshua Reynolds
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The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
— Bell Hooks
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The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron,…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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Mount Calvary is the academy of love.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile…
— Itay Talgam
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Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility…
— Henry Adams
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Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential
— Gordon Brown
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To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery…
— George Steiner
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A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should…
— Morgan Freeman
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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions…
— Alan Dershowitz
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