Professors Quotes - Page 19

• You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

  Nicolas Cage

  Teacher, People, Care

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• God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

  Nicolas Cage

  Father, Decision, Literature

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• As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

  Julie Burchill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  "Do women really need life tips from gay men?". www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

  Mel Brooks

  Book, Character, Max

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• In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

  Noam Chomsky

  4th Of July, America, Mechanic

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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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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• My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mother, Feminist, Parent

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

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Academic Freedom, Firing

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

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• Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Able, Firsts, Debate

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

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• I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

  Claire Danes

  Writing, College, Term Paper

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

  Justin Cronin

  Long, Houston, Passages

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

  John Henrik Clarke

  College, Boards, Language

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• Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Philosopher, Thinker

  "Ecartelement (Drawn and Quartered)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1983.

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• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, School

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• I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Done, Taught, Bigs

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• My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Father, House

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.122, Macmillan

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• [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophy, College, Men

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• Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mom, Thinking, Dust

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• What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.

  Michael Ende

  Distance, Home, Heart

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• Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

  J. K. Rowling

  Liars, Potters, Biscuits

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• What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, College, Expression

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• We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

  James Joyce

  Imagination, Loyal, Causes

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• A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

  Anne Fadiman

  Daughter, Baby, Philosophy

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I can't give a Professor love!

  J. K. Rowling

  Giving, I Can

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