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  • Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels. -- Hayley Mills
  • I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good. -- Anthony Hopkins
  • [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. -- James Dyson
  • I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
  • I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that. -- Anna Wintour
  • I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically. -- Eric Andre
  • I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that. -- Gia Coppola
  • I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble. -- Peter Hollingworth
  • I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically. -- David Ulevitch
  • I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. -- Ken Livingstone
  • I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically. -- Chelsea Clinton
  • If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas. -- Kgalema Motlanthe
  • People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
  • I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it. -- Ezra Koenig
  • Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity. -- Darell Hammond
  • I like to think I'm pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable. -- Robert Griffin III
  • The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! -- LeRoy Neiman
  • I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. -- Ridley Scott
  • I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking. -- Camille Paglia
  • In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships. -- Alexandra Robbins
  • My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. -- Lindsay Fox
  • I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades. -- Meg Cabot
  • As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. -- Brad Sherman
  • When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically. -- Thora Birch
  • I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists. -- Jerry Saltz
  • I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy. -- Sonja Sohn
  • I struggled academically throughout elementary school -- Benjamin Carson
  • Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right. -- Jesse Ventura
  • Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. -- Allen Tate
  • I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class. -- Chris Lilley
  • I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted. -- Joseph Mawle
  • Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish! -- Umberto Eco
  • Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically. -- David Barton
  • In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. -- Carlisle Floyd
  • Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger. -- Arne Duncan
  • I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven. -- Sami Gayle
  • I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. -- A. S. Byatt
  • There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard. -- Sam Smith
  • D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic. -- Justin Theroux
  • I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school. -- Ben Barnes
  • The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data. -- Toni Morrison
  • I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything. -- Brian McKnight
  • When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body. -- Amish Tripathi
  • All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. -- Ernie Pyle
  • If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others. -- Clarence Page
  • I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts. -- Aisha Tyler
  • There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose. -- Jack Nicholson
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