I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.
I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm not at all sure. I just know I don't feel nearly as alone in academia as I used to. I'm feeling increasingly surrounded ...
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. T...
I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.
I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
