Academy Quotes - Page 15

• 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

  Ambition, People, Exhibitions

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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• To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

  Frederick The Great

  Eye, Math, Half

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• I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

  Joanne Woodward

  Believe, Awards, Wish

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

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• I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Struggle, Thinking, Feminist

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.243, Duke University Press

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• The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Issues, Academic Freedom, Understanding

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• If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

  Peter Senge

  Team, Want, Management

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• Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Winning, Acting

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

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• In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

  Maryrose Wood

  Book, Reading, Founders

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• Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Government, Years, Two

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• Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Mean, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Musician, London, Royal

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• I tell my kids in the Academy at Newcastle to watch Henry. He plays with such a swagger, not an arrogance, and that is a great quality. He always looks so comfortable. You talk about cars going from 0 to 60 in a matter of seconds, and he is like that. He just explodes. I could sit there for hours and watch him.

  Peter Beardsley

  Kids, Play, Car

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• I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

  Ansel Elgort

  Taken, Awards, Careers

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first published Euler gives no proof. In place of a proof, he offers an inductive argument: he verifies the relation in a variety of special cases. There is little doubt that he also discovered the theorem, as many of his other results, inductively.

  George Polya

  Numbers, Discovery, Giving

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• The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program with great integrity and clinical relevance.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Integrity, Years, Creative

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• Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Light, Speech

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

  Roman Abramovich

  Player, Giving, Strategy

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• The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

  Edvard Munch

  Education, Art, Machines

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• I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

  Charlize Theron

  Awards, Serious, Winner

  Source: collider.com

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• It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night.

  Yuki

  Night, Guardian, Crosses

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Afterlife, Office

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

  Ruth Simmons

  Strong, Boards, Corporations

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• I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

  Matt Stone

  Couple, Party, Awards

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Photo Shoots, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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