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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yanis Varoufakis
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges. Wendy Kopp
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I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students. Vivek Wadhwa
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I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever. Clay Shirky
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The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale. Vladimir Prelog
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure. Natasha Trethewey
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical. Randy Pausch
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The academic quality of the university exceeds its reputation around the world. David Lawson
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The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops. Anthony White
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I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade. Bruce Coville
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Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class. Big Sean
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I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way. Bill Hader
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I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10. Christine Keeler
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I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company. Denise Morrison
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son. Gaines Adams
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It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.' George Allen
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Zadie Smith
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well. Zadie Smith
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I am in my own head most of the time. Vivienne Westwood
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. Zubin Mehta
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. Zubin Mehta
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When you like something, you find time to do it. Yakov Smirnoff
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I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired. Evangeline Lilly