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Author:Sherry Turkle

“My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.”

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Author:Jay Roach

“Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.”

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Author:Kool Moe Dee

“Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.”

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Book:Theory and History

Source: Theory and History

“Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.”

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Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.”

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Author:Roy Romer

“I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.”

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Author:Miriam Margolyes

“My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.”

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Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.”

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Author:Kurt Huber

“I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark in their profession. Well, of course, I know you cannot invest in securities successfully with odds like that against you if you place dependence solely upon judgement as to the right securities to own and the right time or price to buy them. Then, too, I read somewhere about the man who described an economist as resembling ‘a professor of anatomy who was still a virgin.’”

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Author:Gerald M. Loeb

“There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.”

Source: Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

“I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.”

“These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.”

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Author:Philip Showalter Hench

“There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.”

“Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.”

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Author:David Hilbert

“Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.”

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Author:Morris Kline

“My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.”

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Author:Eliza Dushku

“He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.”

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Author:Linda McCartney

“PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.”

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Book:Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

“I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that.”

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Book:Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two

Source: Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two

“(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.”

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Author:Jerry Lewis

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”

“As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.”

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Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.”

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Author:Philip Warren Anderson

“College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!”

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Book:The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38

“Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.”

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Author:Donald Clark

“The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.”

“There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.”

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Book:The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.”

Source: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

“If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.”

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Author:Daniel Goleman

“I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.”

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Author:Alan Ryan

“Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.”

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Author:John Yudkin

“I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.”

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Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.”

“As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.”

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Author:Thomas Paine

“Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.”

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Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.”

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Author:Edward Said

“A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.”

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Author:Sofia Coppola

“Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.”

Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

“A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."”

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Author:John Edensor Littlewood

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