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(about "don`t be an assiduous student in school"): "There is some truth in that statement. I don`t like school, which makes it easier for me not to do my homework. Evidently, my professors aren`t very happy, and being in the "Harry Potter" movies doesn`t give me any special treatment. For example, when I returned to school after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) finished shooting, I had several hours of detention because I hadn`t done my schoolwork."

- Rupert Grint

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

- Stephen Fry

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

- Camille Paglia

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

- David Horowitz

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

- David Horowitz

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

- Phyllis Schlafly

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

- Phyllis Schlafly

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

- Sun Myung Moon

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn`t get into college because I didn`t know a language.

- Camryn Manheim

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

- Robert Klein

Dr. Siddique has been with the university since 1985. He became tenured in 1991. There?s a whole routine professors go through, and quality is certainly one of the determining factors. You can intimate that at the point that he went through the process, he was truly a valuable asset to the university.

- Michael Hill

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

- James Broughton

This protects students` privacy rights as well as professors.

- Kenneth Brown

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I`m very happy I didn`t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

- David Eddings

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

- Suzanne Fields

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

- Maya Lin
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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.

- Joyce Carol Oates

We most definitely felt that we had already won the main purpose of the lawsuit, which is to alert the public of the professors that were misusing university resources for personal reasons,

- Scott Roberts

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

- Adrienne Becker

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

I try not to deal with people`s hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

- Alex Nogales

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that`s definitely changed.

- Allen Brown

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

- Amanda Zimmerman

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.

- Andre Parker

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

- Andrea Solari

Cultivate connections (and) talk to your professors.

- Andy Heller

Because of the pool problem, we did carefully examine law firms and professors as well in looking for good women and minorities to appoint as district judges and appellate judges.

- Angel Fuentes

I`m going to go see some of my teammates. Say what`s up to the coaches, probably go see some professors.

- Anthony H. Cordesman