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President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.

Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.

Quotes by Niall Ferguson

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

Quotes by Niall Matter

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Quotes by Newt Gingrich

When it comes to China, there are genuine giants that need to be conquered and dragons to tame. Protecting intellectual property rights and leveling the playing field for international trade are serious matters that must be resolved. But that will happen through honest negotiation.

Quotes by Neil Bush

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Quotes by Monica Crowley

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Quotes by Mira Sorvino

The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.

Quotes by Mike Medavoy

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

Quotes by Melinda Gates

I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.

Quotes by Meghan Daum

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Quotes by Max Weber

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Quotes by Maurice Ravel

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Quotes by Mary Renault

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Quotes by Martin Rees

If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S.

Quotes by Martin Jacques

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

Quotes by Marjorie Scardino

A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Quotes by Manuel Puig

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Quotes by Manuel Puig

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Quotes by Maimonides

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

Quotes by Ludwig Quidde

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

Quotes by Luc Besson

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Quotes by Louise Bogan

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Quotes by Lev Vygotsky

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Leonardo da Vinci

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

Quotes by Leo Sayer

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

Quotes by Lenny Bruce

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Quotes by Lawrence Lessig

For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.

Quotes by Lawrence M. Krauss

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

Quotes by Lawrence Summers

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

Quotes by Larry Kramer

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

Quotes by Lana Wachowski

The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.

Quotes by Kumar Mangalam Birla

Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

Quotes by Konstantinos Karamanlis

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

Quotes by Kirk Cameron

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Quotes by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Quotes by Keri Hilson

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Quotes by Kenneth Baker

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

Quotes by Kelly McGillis

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Quotes by Karl Marx

I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

Quotes by Karen Robards

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Quotes by Karel Capek

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

Quotes by Karen Armstrong

Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.

Quotes by Karen DeCrow

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

Quotes by Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Quotes by Juan Goytisolo

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

Quotes by Joseph Pulitzer

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

Quotes by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Quotes by Jon Meacham

We're always looking for ways to extend all of our intellectual property. We've seen that's what happened with 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Quotes by Jon Feltheimer

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Quotes by John Stuart Mill

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

Quotes by John Roos

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

Quotes by John Perry Barlow

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

Quotes by John Layfield

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Quotes by John Dewey

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

Quotes by John Doerr

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Quotes by John Adams

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

Quotes by Joe Manganiello

One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.

Quotes by Joe Lonsdale

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Quotes by Joanna Trollope

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

Quotes by Jim Oberweis

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Quotes by Jim Courier

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Quotes by Jeremy Irons

Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'

Quotes by Jennifer Lee

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

Quotes by Jeffrey Tate

In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

Quotes by Jeff Raikes

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

Quotes by Jeff Koons

When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.

Quotes by Jean-Michel Jarre

Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.

Quotes by Jason Blum

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.

Quotes by Jared Polis

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

Quotes by Jared Polis

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Quotes by Janis Joplin

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Quotes by Janet Echelman

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

Quotes by Jane Smiley

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

Quotes by James Wan

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

Quotes by James Tobin

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.

Quotes by James Meade

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.

Quotes by James M. Buchanan

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

Quotes by James Daly

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Quotes by Jacob Bronowski

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

Quotes by J. M. Coetzee

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.

Quotes by Ivan Krastev

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Quotes by Imre Lakatos

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Quotes by Immanuel Kant

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Quotes by Hu Shih

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Quotes by Howard Berman

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Quotes by Herbert Read

Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.

Quotes by Henry Samueli

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