quotes about Academia
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In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi -
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.
-- Budd HopkinsSource : "Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference". Book by Andrea Pritchard, p. 134, 1994.
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
-- Chris Hedges -
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
-- David Hackett Fischer -
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.
-- Derek R. Audette -
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I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.
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I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
-- Mira Sorvino -
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.
-- Nassim Nicholas TalebSource : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House
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Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
-- Robert Reich -
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
-- E. A. Bucchianeri -
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
-- Frances O'ConnorSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.
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I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.
-- Jacob HashimotoSource : Source: www.designboom.com
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The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.
-- M. E. W. Sherwood -
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I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.
-- Alissa NuttingSource : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com