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• I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

  Lev Grossman

  Way, Tribes, East

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• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, People, Doubt

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Blessed, Writing, Play

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• I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.'

  Tony Judt

  New York, Book, Pieces

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• I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, School, Expectations

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• In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Achievement, Adults

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• The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Discipline, Information

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• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Criticism, Jargon

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• As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophy, Believe, Exercise

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• Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Fields, Topics

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• When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Taken, College, Men

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.26, Knopf

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• When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

  James Fenton

  Song, Purpose, May

  James Fenton (2003). “An Introduction to English Poetry”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  Umberto Eco

  Community, Looks, Resentment

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• If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

  Terry Eagleton

  Philosophy, Academic Life, Training

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• 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

  Novelists, Happens, Written

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• I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Pieces, Research

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• In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Routine, Done, World

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 11-02-03: QUESTIONS FOR NOAM CHOMSKY; The Professorial Provocateur". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 2003.

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• The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Acceptance, People, Community

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• I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

  Chelsea Clinton

  Grandmother, Differences, Making A Difference

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• The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Doe, Actors, Academic Education

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• I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

  Cat Deeley

  School, Squares, Lucky

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• Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Exercise, Government, Academic Freedom

  Alan Dershowitz's speech in Tel Aviv, www.haaretz.com. May 12, 2010.

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• I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Academic Freedom, Professors

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. March 21, 2006.

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• I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Moving, Law, Intellectual

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• The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

  Freeman Dyson

  Real, Roots, People

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