Academia Quote by Paul Giamatti

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

— Michael Heizer

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his…

— Leonard Susskind

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense.…

— Sarah Vowell

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

— Grace Paley

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both…

— Emma Donoghue

A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was…

— Barry Ritholtz

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

— Evan Wright

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of…

— Nat Wolff

When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and…

— Joe Klein

For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones…

— Denise Juneau

There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one of the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number…

— Robert Evans