“I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”
― Ad Reinhardt
“I don’t believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.”
― Alan Dershowitz
“I’m a commercial person, not an academic.”
― Alan Sugar
“If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.”
― Albert Ellis
“Like every other self-respecting academic, I’m distrustful of self-help books.”
― Amitava Kumar
“Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.”
― Azar Nafisi
“Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.”
― Cameron Russell
“A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.”
― Carlo Rubbia
“Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.”
― Charlie Sykes
“I’m actually – believe it or not, for an academic – an aural learner.”
― Condoleezza Rice
“I’m an academic. It’s publish or perish.”
― Daniel J. Bernstein
“I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg
“I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.”
― David Irving
“I’m very competitive and academic.”
― Dove Cameron
“I didn’t do well at school, and I don’t have lots of academic reference points.”
― Eddie Marsan
“I was always more of an academic than a jock.”
― Edwin Moses
“My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.”
― Elizabeth McGovern
“Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.”
― Eric Schlosser
“As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.”
― Gad Saad
“My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.”
― Ian Lustick
“In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.”
― James Black
“I’m instinctively cautious because I’m an academic.”
― James Heckman
“I support high academic standards. Period.”
― Jeb Bush
“I just wasn’t academic. I wanted to be in the real world.”
― John Caudwell
“I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.”
― John Hewson
“Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.”
― John Ortberg
“I say I’m an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison
“I was like, ‘I’m an academic!’ I’m not at all. It turns out I’m not great at that.”
― King Princess
“My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.”
― Lawrence Osborne
“I’m not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.”
― Lenny Abrahamson
“I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.”
― Lev Grossman
“I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research… for ways of augmenting story-telling.”
― Malcolm Gladwell
“I haven’t been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.”
― Manuel Puig
“One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.”
― Mark Walport
“I’m an academic. I argue; I engage with people.”
― Mary Beard
“An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.”
― Mason Cooley
“Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.”
― Maya Soetoro-Ng
“I come from an academic background. I wasn’t raised to be into promoting myself.”
― Michael Heizer
“I wasn’t an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn’t concentrate.”
― Michelle Dockery
“I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type.”
― Noah Centineo
“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”
― Paul Giamatti
“At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.”
― Paul Nurse
“I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.”
― Peter Straub
“Academic success depends on research and publications.”
― Philip Zimbardo
“I wasn’t an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.”
― Rebel Wilson
“Academic studies in general is not something that I’m very good at.”
― Rich Brian
“I knew I’d always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, ‘Well, I’d rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one’.”
― Sarah Waters
“My academic schedule is lighter this year because it’s an Olympic year.”
― Sasha Cohen
“War is not an academic exercise.”
― Scott Ritter
“At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.”
― Steve Blank
“I’m an artist, I’m not an academic folklorist.”
― Terri Windling
“I’m not massively academic. I’m a commonsense person.”
― Theo Paphitis
“I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.”
― Theo Van Gogh
“I’m quite sharp but not particularly academic.”
― Tim Pigott-Smith
“I am not a journalist or an academic.”
― Trevor Paglen
“If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.”
― William Bernbach
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