Professors Quotes - Page 34

• You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Pain, Long, Enough

  "Fictional character: Marty Piletti". "Marty", 1955.

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• I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

  Tia Carrere

  Smart, Play, Female

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

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• Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Economics, Respectable

  1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.1,'The Present Time'.

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• As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

  Kurt Huber

  Destiny, Political, Citizens

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• A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 10, 1799.

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• The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

  Nat Hentoff

  Law, Chicago, Irony

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites in African-American churches. They're interracially married. They're highly committed. Maybe there's a professor or two, or a student.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, Two, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his mouth was "The central theme of American Literature is an attempt to reconcile what we've done to the New World." wrote that down in my notebook, and thought, "What is he talking about?" But that's what I think about now. The New World and what we've done to it.

  Sam Abell

  Notebook, Thinking, Kentucky

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosophy, Ancient, Modern

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.173, 谷月社

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• He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Order, Cities, Evil

  "The Final Problem" (1893)

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• Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

  Isaac Newton

  Atheism, Mankind, Great Scientist

  "Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings".

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• Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'

  Charley Reese

  Years, Class, Voice

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• Hillary Clinton did better among working-class whites when she's running against Barack Hussein Obama. How is she doing now against an older, a professor type, who seems very unthreatening, very likable.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Class, Hussein

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.

  Laura Sydell

  School, Government, Law

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.

  Richard Rorty

  Religious, Atheist, College

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• It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.

  Louis Menand

  People, Educated, General Public

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Issues, Role Models

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Taught, Students, Theology

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• My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

  Ed Droste

  Mother, Teacher, Grandfather

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Retirement, Teaching, Santa Barbara

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Girl, Writing, Doe

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• When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

  Charles Lyell

  Skulls, Apes, Return

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

  Jimmy Wales

  Smart, School, Kids

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• How funny is it that so many professors labeled Tea Partiers as terrorists, while kissing the asses of real, bona fide terrorists? It's not funny, really. But it's the result of a simple equation: One is cool, and the other isn't. Own a gun and keep it by your bed in your remote farmhouse? You're a redneck. Purchase guns that end up killing a judge? Priceless. As long as you cling to cool, progressive beliefs that deem America evil, whatever you do is cool. And if you do it under a big fuzzy 'fro? Even cooler. Hell, if you 'fro is big enough, you could nuke an orphanage and still get tenure.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Real, Kissing, Redneck

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.72, Crown Forum

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