I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.
Ayad Akhtar
FeelPoliticalImportantIntellectual
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
Tony Judt
WorkLiveWorldIntellectualEqual
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
InterestingSexPersonIntellectual
Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.
Robert Webb
MeWrongIntellectualGetVulgar
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
Virginia Foxx
FightingAmericanHelpIntellectual
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Mary Renault
BoredomDefeatIntellectualAlways
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Ted Nelson
TimeThoughtIntellectualSameGoing
Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
Monica Crowley
VotingIntellectualEmotionalAct
I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.
Rashid Johnson
CharacterBlackIntellectualWay
The French like to play the intellectual card; they don't like to be over-sexy. The sexiness comes from the way they walk and hold themselves.
Julia Restoin Roitfeld
WalkPlayIntellectualWayHold
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.
Neill Blomkamp
KingBurgerYouYoungIntellectual
Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.
Jonathan Zittrain
InternetIntellectualProgramming
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Jacques Barzun
OpinionSeeingIntellectualPrivilege
For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.
Dinesh D'Souza
PeopleKnowIntellectualWantMany
In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for intellectual property. He wasn't on the side of the hackers, and he didn't want information to be free.
Franklin Foer
WarFreeInformationIntellectual
I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.
David Souter
GreatFindIntellectualAnnualCourt
Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.
Darryl Pinckney
BlackAestheticIntellectualSixties
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Claude Levi-Strauss
PovertyIntellectualNeverNaive
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
Edward Tufte
TruthHopeI AmThinkIntellectual
I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
Bruce Sterling
LiveExperienceDistanceIntellectual
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Vaclav Havel
WinningIntellectualAlwaysSide
Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
Antoine Predock
RideArchitectureIntellectual
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Sam Brownback
ForwardYouValuesKnowIntellectual
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
ExperienceDoctorIntellectualHuman
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