Academic Quotes

• Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Education, Business

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• Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Writing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.48, Ballantine Books

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• The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

  Audre Lorde

  Our World, Differences, Empowering

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

  Ann Druyan

  Math, Years, Training

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• I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

  Clifford Geertz

  Writing, Style, Notion

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• I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Opposites, Marketplace

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• It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Differences, Today, Moral

  "A Conversation with Friedrich A. Von Hayek: Science and Socialism". Talk at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1979.

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• Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  Kate Moss

  School, Should Have, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, Sea, Tuition

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• At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Boys, Age

  Autobiography by Paul Nurse, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Rights, People, Focus

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Country, Silly

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• I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Cities, Joining

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• I have not had any serious non-academic job.

  Amartya Sen

  Jobs, Serious

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• My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

  Sasha Cohen

  Years, Schedules, Lighters

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• An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

  Mason Cooley

  Dialect, Literature, Term

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• 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

  Men, Feminist, Academia

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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• You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

  Peter Hain

  Jobs, Media, People

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• I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

  Jung Chang

  West, Firsts, Merit

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• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  C. Everett Koop

  People, Foundation, Archives

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• 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

  Love, Book, World

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