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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
Orson Welles
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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War is not an academic exercise.


Scott Ritter
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Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.


Paul Giamatti
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.


Naveen Andrews
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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.


John Hewson
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I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.


Susan Isaacs
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I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.


Lydia Lunch
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I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.


Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
Mark Zuckerberg
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My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
Gemma Chan
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My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.


Casey Kasem
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My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.


Christian Slater
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My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
Amber Stevens
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I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.


Marilyn Hacker
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We love doing commercial and TV show work.


Gene Ween
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
Wendy Kopp
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I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.


Theo Van Gogh
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.


Gavin Bryars
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I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.


Cory Booker
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