Academy Quote by Tony Judt

“I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared…

— Alex Kudera

Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire…

— Al Jourgensen

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have…

— Clay Shirky

I wanted to do my doctorate. I got honorary doctorates which made me feel very fulfilled.

— Poonam Dhillon

The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to…

— Jeff Lindsay

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material…

— Howard W. Hunter

My career would not exist if not for the arts in the schools when I grew up.

— Philip Bailey

My academic struggles were no barrier to my ambitions to be the best that I could be. To be someone who could contribute positively…

— Paterson Joseph

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

— Kim Kardashian

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

— Yash Chopra

There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.

— Madonna Ciccone

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered…

— Paul Berg