Academic Quotes - Page 2

• 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. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  Sarah Vowell

  College, Ideas, People

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• But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Feminist, Males, Movement

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• Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Freedom, People, Criticism

  "H.L. Mencken: The Baltimore Oracle" by John Kenneth Galbraith, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 1980.

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• You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

  Peter Hain

  Jobs, Media, People

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• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  C. Everett Koop

  People, Foundation, Archives

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• It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

  Snoop Dogg

  Football, Kids, Drug

  "Welcome to Britain, Mr Dogg: rapper is less gangsta, more pussycat, judge rules" by Rachel Williams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2008.

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• I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

  Jung Chang

  West, Firsts, Merit

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• When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

  Donald Johanson

  Years, Choices, Fossils

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

  Stanley Crouch

  Fall, Mean, Elements

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• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  George Andrew Olah

  Summer, Responsibility, Academic Life

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• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Moon, Unification Church, Fame

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Ideas, Two

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Class, Ordinary

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• In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

  Twyla Tharp

  People, Inspired, Individual

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• Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Money, Business

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• At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

  Ralph Allen

  Teacher, Art, Important

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• A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

  George Will

  Thinking, Offering, Choices

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• The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

  Gavin Bryars

  Festivals, Modern, Music Festival

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Years, Twelve

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.

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• I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Ambition, Fiction

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Common Sense, Atmosphere

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

  Anne Stevenson

  Criticism, Too Much, Kind

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• Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Impact, Environment, Young

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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, Professors

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• Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Children, Fun, Emotional

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