Professors Quotes - Page 3

• Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Stupid, Philosophy, Oppression

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• I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

  David Horowitz

  Rights, Views, Political

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• I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

  Darren Criss

  Mean, Someday, Theater

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• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  Abraham Verghese

  Teacher, Years, Eerie

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• I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

  Denis McDonough

  Teacher, Catholic, Minnesota

  Denis McDonough's Speech on International Religious Freedom, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 12, 2012.

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• The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

  Don Tapscott

  Fields, Losing, Reason

  "Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

  Juan Cole

  Party, Class, Academic

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• Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

  Donald Sadoway

  Want, Chalk, Best Things

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• My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.

  Matt Czuchry

  Brother, Unique, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Loyalty, Jobs, Science

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  Dad, College, Oxford

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

  Dave Hickey

  Mother, Math, Games

  "Surfing into the Sunset". Interview with Sarah Douglas, www.vanityfair.com. October 24, 2012.

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• I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

  Robert Huber

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• One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Boys, Grandparent

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• The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."

  Arthur Compton

  Mean, Cutting, Science

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• I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

  Mike Judge

  Saws, Late, Stooges

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• But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

  Warwick Davis

  Book, Reading, Character

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 07, 2001.

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• Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.

  Peter Diamandis

  Opportunity, Space, Flying

  "Prof. Hawking Goes Weightless - The True Story" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Years, Law, Peaceful

  "International Men’s Day" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

  Sara Zarr

  Growing Up, Father, School

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• In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

  Ben Rattray

  Believe, College, Roles

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• What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Teaching, Discovery, Quality

  "Memoirs". Book by Pierre Trudeau, 1993.

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• Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

  Matthew Henry

  Enemy, Half, Worldliness

  "An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments" by Matthew Henry, Vol. 2, (p. 482), 1804.

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• Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Thinking, Sight

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.210, Vintage

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• I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

  Camille Paglia

  Successful, Men, Views

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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