Academic Quote by Elizabeth McGovern Download Open image “My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.” — Elizabeth McGovern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academic Eccentric Father Lecturer Parenting
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Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
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My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind. — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say -… — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to… — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is… — Joan Robinson 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 themselves, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
