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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

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.


Camille Paglia


#after #art #audience #beauty #decade

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.


Carroll Quigley


#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


#background #came #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.


James E. Rogers


#any #apparent #chill #extent #freedom

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.


James E. Rogers


#campus #college #contributing #develop #discount

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.


Donald Johanson


#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.


Pete Rozelle


#commissioner #could #deal #given #great

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


Michael J. Fox


#acting #altogether #burgeoning #by the time #career

... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and dutifully crunching out answers by rote, with no real grasp of the significance of what I was doing or its usefulness in solving real-world problems. Worse, I knew the depth of my own ignorance, and I lived in fear that my lack of comprehension would be discovered and I would be exposed as an academic fraud -- psychologists call this "imposter syndrome".


Jennifer Ouellette


#fraud #math #school #apocalypse






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