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Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. Chris Cannon | top
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You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. Brandi Chastain | top
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I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. Lynne Cheney | top
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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. Alan Dundes | top
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If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. Albert Ellis | top
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The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. Suzanne Fields | top
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football. David Gill | top
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I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. David Irving | top
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I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. Anish Kapoor | top
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Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made. Larry McMurtry | top
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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 | top
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I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable. Pat Morita | top
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I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. David Naughton | top
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy. Jack Nicholson | top
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My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. Paul Nurse | top
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I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. George Andrew Olah | top
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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. John L. Phillips | top
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Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. Paul Prudhomme | top
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. Ad Reinhardt | top
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Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. James E. Rogers | top
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Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credits cards. Louise Slaughter | top
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There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that. Roger Staubach | top
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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. Allen Tate | top
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Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals. Richard Wall | top
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Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. Philip Zimbardo | top