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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. -- Ambrose Bierce
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. -- Clint Eastwood
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. -- Giorgos Seferis
I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus. -- Steven Cojocaru
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. -- David Naughton
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. -- Lytton Strachey
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! -- Angela Lansbury
You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again. -- Cher
Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days. -- Thomas Haden Church
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable. -- Pat Morita
I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies -- William Peter Blatty
Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school. -- Roy H. Williams
I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. -- George Andrew Olah
I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track. -- Pieter Zeeman
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor. -- Ray Charles
Academy Awards don't really solve anything. -- Richard LaGravenese
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky. -- Adam McKay
I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. -- Charlize Theron
The Academy is paranoid about its image. -- Roger Ebert
Not everything's made to win an Academy Award. -- Samuel L. Jackson
We don't even know who's in the Academy. -- Clint Eastwood
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award -- Laraine Day
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. -- Laraine Day
I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards. -- Sacheen Littlefeather
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of, -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well. -- Brenda Blethyn
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. -- Elia Kazan
the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males. -- Dorothy Richardson
I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' -- Todd Phillips
Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card. -- Robin Williams
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. -- Dustin Hoffman
I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award. -- Denzel Washington
Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover. -- Bob Hope
Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy. -- Ally Carter
Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting. -- Shirley Knight
It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night. -- Yuki
I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial. -- Kato Kaelin
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy. -- Jack Nicholson
I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age. -- Michael Caine
Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award. -- Roger Ross Williams
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. -- Michael Caine
What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything. -- Sally Field
Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. -- Andrea Martin
I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else. -- Jack Nicholson
It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. -- Malcolm McDowell
The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. -- Ronald Kessler
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy. -- Robert Kiyosaki
For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. -- Luise Rainer
The first time I came to California was in January 2013, when I auditioned for 'Vampire Academy.' -- Lucy Fry
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me, -- Luise Rainer
I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well. -- Cecily Strong
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. -- Bela Lugosi
Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party. -- Hans Frank
If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy. -- Peter Senge
I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category. -- Tom Hanks
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. -- Plato
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. -- Rachael Taylor
Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please. -- Henny Youngman
I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. -- Kevin Smith
My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. -- Jim Carrey
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. -- George C. Scott
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. -- Paul Mooney
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it. -- Jean Cocteau
I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology. -- Danila Kozlovsky
Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe. -- Brad Goreski
I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool. -- Rene Russo
My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start. -- Paige VanZant
My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.' -- Mark Ruffalo
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me. -- Matt Stone
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.' -- Matt Stone
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. -- Ricky Gervais
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there. -- Luke Grimes
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed -- Blixa Bargeld
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.' -- Maryrose Wood
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. -- Sally Kellerman
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. -- Aaron Sorkin
Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. -- David Letterman
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. -- Joan Rivers
I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm. -- Jon Stewart
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. -- Hassan Blasim
At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history. -- Brad Goreski
For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy. -- Michael Medved
You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done. -- Jason Statham
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. -- Fritz Haber
You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have. -- Robert Osborne
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show. -- Johnny Carson
Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential -- Gordon Brown
I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it. -- Gena Rowlands
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. -- Annie Proulx
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office. -- Don Simpson
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. -- Helen Hunt
A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors. -- Simon Newcomb
I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy. -- Jayne Mansfield
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star. -- Bill Bruford
We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it. -- Rachel Tucker
I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know. -- Don Rickles
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media. -- Julie Delpy
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while. -- Woody Allen
I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy. -- Luise Rainer
I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support. -- Jahangir Khan
I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director. -- Sami Gayle
At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents. -- Bob Hope
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day. -- Kitty Kelley
I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid. -- Alex Ebert
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. -- Michael Douglas
Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show. -- Kevin Connolly
I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict. -- Hassan Blasim
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them. -- Joshua Reynolds
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself. -- Jamie Wyeth
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years. -- Robert K. G. Temple
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white. -- David Letterman
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made. -- Larry McMurtry

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