Study Quotes - Page 19

• I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Mother, Strong Women, Two

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• I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious classes in school. I'm a big believer in separation of church and state, and I think that's what . . . the law is.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Religious, School, Thinking

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• Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Done, Tables

  "Kelley softens tone in new books" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 07, 2013.

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• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Issues, Different, Movement

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• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Range, Interest, Contribution

  "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

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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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• That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

  Elliott Carter

  Writing, Style, Pieces

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• A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

  Francis Crick

  Ideas, Mutation, Finals

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• My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Teaching, Boston

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• Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

  William C. Kirby

  Goal, Needs, Looks

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• I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

  Jon Bernthal

  Baseball, College, Russia

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

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• I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

  Clayton Christensen

  Book, Earth, My Family

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• After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.

  Dave Brubeck

  War, California, Piano

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• Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

  Judith Butler

  Race, Class, Different

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• Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

  Katy B

  Style, Studying Music

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• Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Historical, Company

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• I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

  Alex Cox

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• My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

  Bram Cohen

  Father, School, Class

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• Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

  Clayton Christensen

  Morning, Children, Home

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• History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

  Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

  Real, History, Facts

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• Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Kids, Fields, Failing

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2011

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• Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Organization, People, Corporations

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• Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

  Sharon Creech

  Children, Real, Philosophical

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• The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

  Francis Crick

  Cells, Balance, Doe

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• The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

  Joe Conason

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

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