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Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.
I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
I was like, 'I'm an academic!' I'm not at all. It turns out I'm not great at that.
I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.
Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.
I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.
I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.
My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.
Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.
I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn't good at keeping up with the paperwork.
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'
My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.