Academics Quotes

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas Sowell

Time, Important, Tell

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
Snoop Dogg

Football, Easy, Kid

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
Robert Kiyosaki

Money, Food, Everything

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon

Knowledge, Famous, Nothing

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Why, Become, Poor

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Business, Important

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
Michael J. Fox

Time, School, Career

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
Jennifer Garner

Music, Education, Art

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
Camille Paglia

Waiting, Order, Essays

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
Marc Andreessen

Wisdom, Two, Around

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson

Love, Work, Book

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
Arthur Smith

Find, Try, While

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.
Michelle Malkin

Life, Good, Motto

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.
Ron Chernow

Writing, Dead, Seems

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.
Stephen Jay Gould

Writing, Before, Growing

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
Hank Azaria

Good, School, Lost

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Both, Athletes, Expert

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
Terri Windling

Great, Respect, Working

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
Joseph Fiennes

Truth, Greatest, Through

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
Joan Cusack

Life, Sports, Everything

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
John Lithgow

Humor, Senses, Tend

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
Brandi Chastain

Life, Sports, Fun

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
Anton Yelchin

Love, Try, Reading

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
H. G. Bissinger

Education, Football, College

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
Juan Cole

Important, Policy, Debates

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
David Crystal

Strength, Thinking, Through

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
James E. Rogers

Life, Success, Sports

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
William Standish Knowles

Made, Team, Days

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
Preston Manning

School, American, Whole

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
Evan Sayet

Work, Important, Done

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