University Quotes - Page 7

• I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

  Freida Pinto

  School, College, Mind

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• I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

  Judith Curry

  Climate, Speech, Debate

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• ... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.

  C. Wagner

  Christian, Doctors, People

  C. Peter Wagner (2011). “Spiritual Warfare Strategy: Confronting Spiritual Powers”, p.95, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka  Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

  James Delingpole

  Aka, Climate, East

  "Global Warming Conspiracy Exposed?". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 20, 2009.

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• The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more than music. I did stuff on acoustic guitar when I was traveling, filed it away and made notes, without it being musical notation. Just taped the odd thing, did a sketch, stuck it on a cassette. I thought at some point, I'll go back to it. Some of it I did use in '84-'85 when I started working in the Free Theatre in Christchurch. So it might seem like I had given up after the Pin Group, but I just went into a different avenue.

  Roy Montgomery

  Guitar, Musical, Theatre

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• Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Heart, Honor

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

  Coleman Barks

  Mind, Three, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there is very little there that you can get hold of that is really informative about Islam. If you look at the popular media, you'll see that the stereotype that begins with Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik has really remained and developed into the transnational villain of television and film and culture in general.

  Edward Said

  Country, Islamic, School

  Source: progressive.org

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• When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Hair, Government, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The notion that the campus has its hands tied if a woman is not willing to go to the police, if the woman is only willing to go so far as, "I just don't want to see him in my dorm anymore," is ridiculous. If that's as far as she's willing to go, then we need to accommodate that. And a university needs to be able to accommodate it.

  Claire McCaskill

  Hands, Police, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have gotten a job teaching grade school kids how to photograph their relatives, but knowing about B&W photo processing and developing and how to shoot a picture story is good basic info that every photographer should have.

  Peter Menzel

  Jobs, Teaching, School

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• I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Night, Men

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Live Life, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

  Rita Mae Brown

  People, Creative, Process

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• Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

  Dave Brubeck

  Acceptance, Texas, Jazz

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• Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

  Gary Burton

  Writing, Play, Texas

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• We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!

  Peter Erskine

  Country, Grateful, School

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• It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Atheist, Jobs

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• Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.

  Jane Brody

  Baby, Communication, School

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• The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

  Vartan Gregorian

  House, Library, Graduates

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• If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

  Hermann Broch

  Rome, Ideas, Age

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• I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

  Yasmin Paige

  Queens, East London, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Jobs, Teaching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

  Yasmin Paige

  Challenges, Different, Tvs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

  Marcel Dzama

  Ceramics, Film, Figures

  "Marcel Dzama’s Grandmaster Games". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 8, 2014.

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