I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
Anatoly Chubais
GovernmentI AmCityAcademicAm
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
Michael Hirst
LoveReadingProcessEngageAcademic
There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
Simon Sinek
ValueBetterTwoAcademicDifferent
I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people.
Mary Beard
PeopleEngageAcademicArgue
I've learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
MeFlyManagementThinkUpAcademic
If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.
Austan Goolsbee
WorldYouPolicyAcademicGoing
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
Toby Young
WorkMechanicCateringAcademicEven
I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.
Noma Dumezweni
SchoolMeYouthTheatreAcademic
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
Lev Grossman
FamilyWayTribeAcademicIntense
I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past is, and a lot of academic archaeology is about refining the model. It's not about changing the model radically. I'm not aware of any current which is about radically changing the model. It's just me, really.
Graham Hancock
PastMeIdeasAcademicChanging
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
David Horowitz
PeopleNameYouMouthAcademic
I'm a commercial person, not an academic.
Alan Sugar
PersonAcademicCommercial
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.
Rebel Wilson
ThoughtShyWayNeverKidAcademic
My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.
Lawrence Osborne
ParentsWorldAcademicArtsVery
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
Catharine MacKinnon
WomenMenWorldAcademicElite
I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.
Tanya Saracho
ThinkWillNeverAcademicPoetLike
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz
DangerousKnowYearsAcademicBeen
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Cameron Russell
AcademicBecomingBackgroundModel
Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
MindMomSheAcademicRichesWere
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.
Michael Fassbender
WorkGoMoreAlwaysOutAcademic
I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.
Trip Adler
TalkingUpAcademicThingsTakeGet
I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.
Michelle Dockery
ScienceSchoolAcademicHatedMaths
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
Dennis Prager
DayWithoutAcademicMayPolitician
I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.
William M. Daley
GreatThroughAcademicGotOKDid
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