#academic

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#classroom #dearly #economic #else #everyone

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Michael McKean

#avoid #becoming #just #me #people

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me. ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#bathroom #bits #class #come #cut

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. ↗

— Criss Jami

#athletes #athletics #competition #confidence #improvement

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#everywhere #had #i #i see #lifestyle

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. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#easy #football #gang #involved #join

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#being #came #carl #formal #gave

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

#being #certain #colleagues #community #did

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. ↗

— Al McGuire

#academic #athlete #bottom #classes #country