#intellectual

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#been #body #extremely #human #human body

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ↗

— Bill Gates

#intellectual #intellectual property #life #property #shelf

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #followed #get #here #institution

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contemporary #important #important matters #indicated #intellectual

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience. ↗

— Jack Lemmon

#actor #audience #emotional #emotionally #front

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#end #ethic #in the end #intellectual #level

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#amount #attributed #best #cases #control

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. ↗

— Walter Lord

#intellectual #just #me #once #personal

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#between #bridge #difference #emotional #forms