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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.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
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.
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
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.
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.
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
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.
The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.
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.
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.
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.
My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.
Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
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.
I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever.
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.
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.
Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play.
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?
High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
My mum was always more pushing me towards the academic side; she wasn't really interested in me having a professional football career.
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.
I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.