I'm a child of academics.

Both my parents are from academics.

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

Experience maketh an artist, not books or academics.

We don't hire students who are just good at academics.

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

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

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

All three of us - two sisters and a brother - were brought up with an emphasis on academics.

Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

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

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

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

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

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

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

I am from a south Indian Tamilian family, so all my cousins are into academics and I alone was in sports.

It's nice to socialize with some normal students, and kind of separate from my skating life with academics.

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

I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

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

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

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.

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.

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

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

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

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

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

Even in school, I was that kid others tried to pull down because I was naughty and did well in sports and academics. Life has trained me well.

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.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

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