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In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.
Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
It was always academic first, and I always put school work before football - although I did put a lot into football!
Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I wanted.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.
I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market.
The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.
I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.
My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.
If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever.
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.
Drama at Bristol was an academic course: you were judged on your A-levels, and there were no auditions. I did a BA General degree.
Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.
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'.