Intellectual Quotes — Page 36

Author

“there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.”

Believe Guy Intellectual

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Stephen King

Author

“I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.”

Book Emotional Intellectual

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Ronald Reagan

Politician, Actor

“Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?”

Government Intellectual

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Ronald Reagan

Politician, Actor

“The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.”

Intellectual California

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Stephen King

Author

“...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.”

Writing Jobs Intellectual

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.”

Change Intellectual Historical

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.”

Thinking Writing Intellectual

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.”

Eye Cities Intellectual

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Sylvester Stallone

Actor, Filmmaker

“I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.”

Taken Intelligent Intellectual

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Stephen King

Author

“Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.”

Culture Ignorance Intellectual

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Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction Author

“But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.”

Men Religion Intellectual

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Lady Gaga

Singer, Actress

“I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.”

Writing Intellectual Evolution

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