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Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system. -- Noam Chomsky
Academics are, on average, pussies. -- David Buss
Academics are not necessarily nice people. -- Noam Chomsky
Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two. -- Tom Brands
Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days. -- Chris Toumazou
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. -- John Lithgow
Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right. -- Donald A. Norman
Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins. -- Renee Zellweger
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument. -- David Crystal
Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially. -- Ian Bremmer
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done. -- Evan Sayet
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. -- Jeanette Winterson
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. -- Jerry Saltz
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing. -- Gordon S. Wood
Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop." -- Victor Klemperer
If the player has the confidence and ability, then he should sign with the pro team. Academics certainly play a large part in the decision, but if someone feels they are ready to sign, they should. -- Mark Mulder
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know. -- Steven Pinker
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece. -- James Surowiecki
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. -- James E. Rogers
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything. -- Demetri Martin
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. -- Thomas Sowell
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? -- Thomas Sowell
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. -- Emma Watson
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. -- Gary Hamel
It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics. -- Snoop Dogg
Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. -- Joan Cusack
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. -- Marc Andreessen
There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. -- Stephen Jay Gould
More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation. -- Ben Goldacre
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. -- Robert Kiyosaki
There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking. -- Robin Chase
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. -- Brandi Chastain
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back. -- Steven Pinker
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes. -- George M. Whitesides
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. -- Camille Paglia
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. -- Sun Myung Moon
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why. -- Joss Whedon
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. -- Jeremy Lin
Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. -- Michelle Malkin
I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math. -- Peter Cullen
... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. -- Ron Chernow
I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. -- Juan Cole
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical. -- Zephyr Teachout
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. -- Harold Clurman
The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work. -- Stephanie Coontz
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. -- Douglas Lain
[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success. -- Shefali Tsabary
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. -- Michael J. Fox
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. -- Kenny Smith
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics. -- Nita Ambani
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. -- Margaret Drabble
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them. -- Terri Windling
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. -- Camille Paglia
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. -- William Standish Knowles
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power. -- Michael Pare
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true. -- Isaiah Berlin
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case. -- Chuck Klosterman
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can. -- Anton Yelchin
In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict. -- Widad Akrawi
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character. -- Mona Charen
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags. -- Arthur Smith
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways. -- Michael Longley
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed. -- Hassan Rouhani
The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media. -- David Lereah
I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers. -- Warren Beatty
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. -- Jasper Fforde
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours. -- Muhammad Yunus
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists. -- Sara Sheridan
It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon. -- Nelson Mandela
The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people. -- Peter Thomas Bauer
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. -- Michael Gove
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. -- Lynne Cheney
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned. -- A. N. Wilson
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. -- Preston Manning
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. -- Flea
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics. -- Pallam Raju
I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works. -- Ron Finley
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review. -- Daniel Drezner
I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe. -- Nic Pizzolatto
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties. -- Paul Fry
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up. -- Marshall McLuhan
You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity. -- Tucker Max
I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever. -- Arthur Jones
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics. -- Hank Azaria
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing. -- Joss Whedon
Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential. -- Hyrum W. Smith
I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question. -- Noam Chomsky
There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics. -- Terry Pratchett
No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats. -- Warren Buffett
The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers. -- Simon Schama
Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago. -- Philip Jenkins
As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university. -- Chuck Klosterman
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic. -- Brian Crozier
Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun. -- Seth Shostak
In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence. -- Ben Goldacre
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend. -- Justin Tuck
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. -- H. G. Bissinger
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. -- H. G. Bissinger
The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh. -- Alex Pareene
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality. -- Darell Hammond
But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A -- Mark Krikorian

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