Academic Quotes - Page 13

• I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Thinking, Wonderful

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• Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Patriotism, Matter, Violence

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• In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Academic Life, Politics, Facts

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• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

  Terry Eagleton

  Stress, Mean, Humanity

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Way, Firsts

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

  Naveen Andrews

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• Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

  Andrew Bird

  Kind, Biology, Bigs

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

  Lenora Crichlow

  Art

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• The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

  Nadia Ali

  Girl, Art, Giving

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• I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

  Nicole Anderson

  Teacher, Book, Bully

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

  Freema Agyeman

  School, Ideas, Acting

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2008.

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• In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

  Olivia Colman

  Girl, School, Laughing

  "How Olivia Colman, star of Peep Show and The Iron Lady, made the big time". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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• My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

  Simon Callow

  Mother, Teacher, College

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• Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

  Gordon Gee

  Powerful, Class, Ohio State

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your children these things and you will have taught them grandly.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Children, Honesty

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Communion with God”, p.69, Penguin

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Care, Photographer

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• I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

  Michael Fassbender

  Study

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

  Paul Giamatti

  Ivy, League, Academia

  "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Attitude, Philosophy, Long

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• Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

  Caroline Knapp

  Teacher, Order, Achievement

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.91, Dial Press

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• My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

  Rob James-Collier

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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

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• I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

  Rob James-Collier

  Thinking, Games, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

  Michelle Malkin

  Children, School, Phones

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