All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.
I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
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.
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
