Phds Quotes - Page 2

• We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me rephrase that: It is the ill-educated and the uneducated that we are letting in. The VCs, college graduates, PhDs, you name it, from all over the world, they are limited. The number of people of that caliber - severely limited and tightly controlled.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Names, Numbers

  "It’s the Statue of Liberty, Not the Statue of Immigration". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 1, 2010.

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• When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

  Don King

  Mean, Winning, Boxing

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• PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

  Alexander Chee

  Heart, Self, Faces

  "'MFA vs NYC': Both, Probably" by Andrew Martin, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2014.

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• I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

  Jerry Fodor

  Philosophy, Doubt, Imagine

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• A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

  Sahndra Fon Dufe

  Queens, Bees, Ends

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

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• Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, College, Degrees

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• We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Victim

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• I think I may have too much of a scientific mindset and am always looking for the caveats and qualifications in any situation. I never thought seriously of doing a PhD until relatively late in the day. I was always diligent at the book-work at university but the brightest amongst my friends all seemed to have a more intuitive grasp of the subject.

  Stephen Curry

  Book, Thinking, May

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Should Have, Economics, Economy

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vague ambition of becoming a writer and I was trying to write poems and essays and stories, I didn't feel like I was far enough along to submit work to some place and have it judged.

  Robert Hass

  Writing, Ambition, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree or a professional degree are not poor.

  Michael Marmot

  People, Degrees, Example

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• The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volcker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.

  Bernard von NotHaus

  Believe, People, Needs

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.

  Eliza Griswold

  Rallying Cry, Special, Patterns

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

  Laura Mullen

  Years, Gertrude, Syllabus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.

  Bernard von NotHaus

  Believe, People, Needs

  Source: www.wherestherage.com

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• To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a PhD dropout. No matter how many twenty-five-page papers I wrote, I never felt like I was saying much. I didn't feel like the writer of the book, whose work I was analyzing, would have been impressed. It didn't matter how much time or effort I put in.

  Mary J. Miller

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

  Chaz Bundick

  Girlfriend, Environmental, Walks

  "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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• A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Impact, People, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

  Deborah Smith

  Years, Taught, London

  Source: thequietus.com

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• NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations with China cost us millions of jobs. Look, I was on a picket line in early 1990's against NFATA because you didn't need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Class, Racism

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• What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

  Barbara Delinsky

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.99, Anchor

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• Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD

  Dan B. Allender

  Hands, Discipline, Decision

  Dan B. Allender (2009). “To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future”, p.186, WaterBrook

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