My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
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.
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.
As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
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.
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In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
In the USA, the “corporament” exists as the: military (defense/offense) + industrial + academic (schooling – at all levels – as prison) + “corporament” entertainment (Hollywood, media, advertising/consumerism/commercialization, propaganda...
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.
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.
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
