#academic

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. ↗

— David Horowitz

#any #could #hallway #institution #mention

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#aristocratic #atmosphere #common #common sense #live

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

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

— Juan Cole

#been #debates #i #i think #important

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. ↗

— Juan Cole

#another #before #class #go #party

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#acceptable #certain #congenial #found #i

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes. ↗

— Al McGuire

#academic #athlete #bottom #classes #country

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#academically #big #broom #changed #could

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#also #alternative #arts #arts education #build

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism