Academy Quotes - Page 7

• You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated.

  Russell Simmons

  Dope, Years, White

  "Russell Simmons Has Your Oscars Alternative". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. February 28, 2016.

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• 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

  Awards, Two, Four

  "The 51st Annual Academy Awards", TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

  Gene Kelly

  Drama, Awards, Ideas

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

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• He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Military, War, Men

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• Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, Media, Alive

  "Mariah Carey's New Album: First Review" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2008.

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• For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

  Luise Rainer

  Awards, Thirds, Happened

  "Winning an Oscar: Blessing or Curse?" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2006.

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• 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

  Art, Dramatic, Carnegie

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Goal, Rays, Groups

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Lasts, Six, Twenties

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Winning, Nba, Awards

  "Has The Academy Awards Turned A Page On #OscarsSoWhite?". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2017.

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• I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

  Marlee Matlin

  Distance, Awards, Years

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• I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

  Kevin Smith

  Winning, Awards, Film

  "On Twitter, filmmaker Kevin Smith is a superstar". Interview with Erin Biba, www.wired.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Winning, Awards, Body

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

  Samuel Warren Carey

  Wall, Thinking, Dogma

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• Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

  Rob Lowe

  Eye, Winning, Awards

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far East] has been home for one of the leading institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Marine Biology.

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Marine, Years

  Source: thesaker.is

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• people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cousin, Mean, Thinking

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• I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools

  Ally Carter

  Eye, Fighting, Looks

  Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Country, Sleep

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• We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Easter, Museums, Ballet

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Doors, Feminist, Typical

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Humanity, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

  Corliss Lamont

  Heart, Character, Together

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• How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, School, Government

  "Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2006.

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