Academy Quotes

• What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

  Sally Field

  Mean, Thinking, Awards

  "Biting The Hand That Feeds? 10 Actors Who Dissed The Oscars Before Joaquin Phoenix" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Sleep, Sunday

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.34, Penguin

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• Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child.” Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me.” - Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

  Shirley Knight

  Awards, Giving, Acting

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• Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Superstitions, Built, Inquisition

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

  Steven Wright

  Awards, Tv Shows, Giving

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• 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

  Bill Murray

  Groundhog Day, Awards, Scripts

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• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

  Tara Reid

  Dream, Kids, Winning

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

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• Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Dad, Awards, Attention

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• Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

  Larry McMurtry

  People, Stories, Urban

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• I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.

  George Andrew Olah

  Groups, Research, Able

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• How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

  Lytton Strachey

  Hygiene, Evil, Dubious

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Games, Play

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• I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Awards, Want, Pay

  "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

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• I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

  John L. Phillips

  Math, Careers, Decision

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• Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

  Roy H. Williams

  Business, School, Artist

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• I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Thinking, Today, Spirit

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• Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Rights, Support, Use

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• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

  Georg Solti

  Life Lesson, Hard Work, Discipline

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Guy, World, Lasts

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• The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl's face, it was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Night, Judging

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.43, Penguin

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• I'm really not good with impulse control.

  Richelle Mead

  Impulse Control, Rose, Vampire

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.277, Penguin

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• Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

  Sally Kellerman

  Awards, Careers, Film

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 10, 2002.

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• I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

  Elia Kazan

  Generosity, Want

  "Praise and silent protest greet Kazan's Oscar", www.theguardian.com. March 22, 1999.

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• A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

  Mickey Rourke

  Couple, Awards, Long

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