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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

Hillary Clinton

Business Trust People Space

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

Women Language Understand Nobody

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

Women You See Congress

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Life You People Live Life

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

Life Good Mother Father

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

Geoffrey Hinton

Fed Up Carpenter Up Got

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

Sebastian Thrun

Life You People My Life

When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

Good God You Fire

A lot of the progress in machine learning - and this is an unpopular opinion in academia - is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.

Learning You Power Space

Terrorists remain determined to find a weakness in our defence... To stay ahead of the terrorists, I call on the international community, the private sector, and academia to share knowledge, expertise, and resources to prevent new technologies becoming lethal terrorist weapons.

Antonio Guterres

Knowledge Community New Weakness

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Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

Music Childhood Dance City

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Education Politics Finance Service

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.

Work You Someone Start

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Me Laboratory Because Industrial

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

Malcolm Gladwell

Learning Light Knowledge Time

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

Life My Life Living Make

The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes.

Love Science Women Me

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

Dangerous Very Professor Outspoken

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

Be Prepared Get Out Mentality

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

John Shelby Spong

Controversial Even Scholars Churches

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

Orphan Biography Simply

Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.

You Research Go Back

My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.

Respect World Understand Economics

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

Culture News Media Left

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

Culture Background Academic Ivy

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.

Myself Good Try Ready

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