Academic Quotes - Page 8

• I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.

  John Shelby Spong

  Giving Up, Book, Careers

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi Minh to find the secret of his success.

  William J. Duiker

  Careers, Secret, Study

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.

  Philip Glass

  Real, Trying, Different

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Jobs, Psych, People

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.

  Judith Butler

  Government, Circles, Issues

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

  Noam Chomsky

  Littles, Reason, Disputes

  Source: libcom.org

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• How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, World, Philosopher

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• When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.

  Nick Offerman

  Italian, Years, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Errors, Views, Ideas

  "On Anarchism". Interview with Tom Lane, chomsky.info. December 23, 1996.

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• I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Personality, Red, Opinion

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• The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.

  Cody Wilson

  People, Trump, Relieved

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department - and even many literary writers look and behave like young urban professionals and canny careerists.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Academic Freedom, Inward, Turns

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists.

  Thomas Pogge

  Army, Views, Careers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Philosophy, Writing, Trying

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• But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Football, College, Order

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• I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Publish

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• I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teacher, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.afb.org

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• I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty. High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.

  Thomas Frank

  Jobs, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. And then when I was applying for universities I used a couple of places on my UCAS form to apply for drama school without telling anyone... but didn't get into drama school. But that was the most rebellious thing I did.

  Carey Mulligan

  Couple, Drama, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Action, Domain

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Real, Exercise, Black And White

  "This Day in UCLA History: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Becomes A Bruin". Bruins Nation Interview, www.bruinsnation.com. May 5, 2015.

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• To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.

  George Steiner

  Art, Skills, Degrees

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen."

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Political, United States

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Done

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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