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• I don’t come from a lot of money and wasn’t going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

  Jon Huertas

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• I want to prove you don’t need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

  Eddie Huang

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• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn’t been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  Adam Hochschild

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• 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.

  Michael Hirst

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• I wasn’t an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn’t the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.

  Michael Heizer

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• I come from an academic background. I wasn’t raised to be into promoting myself.

  Michael Heizer

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• The academic atmosphere, produced mainly by the humanities, is the only atmosphere in which pure science can flourish.

  Edgar William Richard Steacie

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• Democrats: Do have ANY thoughts on Obama’s transition from a progressive academic Humanist, to a regressive Corporatist warlord?

  John Cusack

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• I’m a commercial person, not an academic.

  Alan Sugar

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• My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer

  Elizabeth McGovern

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• Some of my academic friends think I’ve fallen from a very special grace.

  Angelo Bartlett Giamatti

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• I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

  Toby Young

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• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  Umberto Eco

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• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  George Andrew Olah

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• I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

  Thomas Menino

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• 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

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• Being a full time coach doesn’t mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice!

  Tony Brown

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

  David Horowitz

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• I was always more of an academic than a jock.

  Edwin Corley Moses

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• My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

  Georg Brandes

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