Academic Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

  Alan Sugar

  Persons

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• The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

  Rachael Taylor

  Art, Ocean, Wild Places

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Father, Eccentric, Lecturer

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

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• As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

  Rebel Wilson

  Kids, Shy, Way

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• I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Philosophy, Writing, Trying

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• But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Football, College, Order

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• I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Publish

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• I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. And then when I was applying for universities I used a couple of places on my UCAS form to apply for drama school without telling anyone... but didn't get into drama school. But that was the most rebellious thing I did.

  Carey Mulligan

  Couple, Drama, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Action, Domain

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Personality, Red, Opinion

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• To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Trying, Hunger

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