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Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. -- Paul Giamatti
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. -- Werner Herzog
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist. -- Christian Wiman
Working on the final formulation of technological patents was a veritable blessing for me. It enforced many-sided thinking and also provided important stimuli to physical thought. [Academia] places a young person under a kind of compulsion to produce impressive quantities of scientific publications; a temptation to superficiality. -- Albert Einstein
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. -- Catharine MacKinnon
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. -- Werner Herzog
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. -- Hillary Clinton
Academia is a graveyard of poets. -- Kathleen Raine
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. -- Laurence J. Peter
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. -- Slavoj Zizek
I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. -- Mira Sorvino
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. -- Anton Chekhov
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. -- Alissa Nutting
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. -- Tucker Max
I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago. -- Philip Greenspun
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been. -- Budd Hopkins
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. -- Marvin Olasky
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism -- Gad Saad
I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot. -- Godfrey
I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write. -- Betty Dodson
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from? -- Nancy Pearcey
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful -- Leonard Nimoy
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size. -- Edgar Mitchell
I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path. -- Joe Anderson
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. -- Barry McGee
If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random. -- Lauren Willig
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. -- David Chipperfield
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. -- Pete Seeger
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches. -- John Shelby Spong
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people. -- Graeme Simsion
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV. -- Nic Pizzolatto
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. -- Jay Griffiths
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform. -- Geoff Mulgan
Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds. -- Noreena Hertz
It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers. -- Seth Shostak
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. -- William Safire
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful. -- Leonard Nimoy
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. -- Evan Davis
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. -- Helen McCrory
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.' -- John Piper
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. -- Jon Ronson
The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media. -- Monica Crowley
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. -- Slavoj Zizek
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. -- Neil Steinberg
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. -- Slavoj Zizek
In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. -- Robert Reich
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool. -- Gene Luen Yang
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. -- Chris Hedges
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching. -- Paul Smith
THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA -- Jacque Fresco
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. -- David Hackett Fischer
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. -- Gloria Steinem
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something. -- Derek R. Audette
Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people. -- Sasa Stanisic
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. -- Michael Crichton
[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned. -- Noam Chomsky
Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria. -- Janet Parshall
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor. -- Debra Dean
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works. -- Nicholas Stern
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia. -- Thomas Sowell
I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter. -- Jacob Hashimoto
I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career. -- Greg Graffin
I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia. -- Brad Thor
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them. -- Daniel Kahneman

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