“I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”
“I don’t believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.”
“I’m a commercial person, not an academic.”
“If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.”
“Like every other self-respecting academic, I’m distrustful of self-help books.”
“Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.”
“Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.”
“A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.”
“Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.”
“I’m actually – believe it or not, for an academic – an aural learner.”
“I’m an academic. It’s publish or perish.”
“I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.”
“I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.”
“I’m very competitive and academic.”
“I didn’t do well at school, and I don’t have lots of academic reference points.”
“I was always more of an academic than a jock.”
“My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.”
“Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.”
“As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.”
“My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.”
“In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.”
“I’m instinctively cautious because I’m an academic.”
“I support high academic standards. Period.”
“I just wasn’t academic. I wanted to be in the real world.”
“I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.”
“Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.”
“I say I’m an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.”
“I was like, ‘I’m an academic!’ I’m not at all. It turns out I’m not great at that.”
“My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.”
“I’m not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.”
“I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.”
“I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research… for ways of augmenting story-telling.”
“I haven’t been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.”
“One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.”
“I’m an academic. I argue; I engage with people.”
“An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.”
“Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.”
“I come from an academic background. I wasn’t raised to be into promoting myself.”
“I wasn’t an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn’t concentrate.”
“I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type.”
“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”
“At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.”
“I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.”
“Academic success depends on research and publications.”
“I wasn’t an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.”
“Academic studies in general is not something that I’m very good at.”
“I knew I’d always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, ‘Well, I’d rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one’.”
“My academic schedule is lighter this year because it’s an Olympic year.”
“War is not an academic exercise.”
“At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.”
“I’m an artist, I’m not an academic folklorist.”
“I’m not massively academic. I’m a commonsense person.”
“I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.”
“I’m quite sharp but not particularly academic.”
“I am not a journalist or an academic.”
“If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.”
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