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Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.

~Chris Cannon

Topics: Academy Anyone Apply Began Career Careers College Encourage Experience Great Great Leaders Interested Leaders Many Military Nation Our Possible Rewarding Service Soon

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We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

~Christine Gregoire

Topics: About Academy Based Better Decisions Enable Established Get Lives Make Meaning Our Our Lives Quality Right Science Sciences State Us Washington Washington State Will

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My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science.

~Clara Shih

Topics: Academy After Anything Anything Is Possible Attended Big Computer Computer Science Degree Economics Graduating High High School Illinois Laboratory Mathematics Me National Never Possible Programmer School Science Stanford Think Think Big Too Worked You Young

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I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

~Clay Shirky

Topics: Academic Academy Almost Any Assumes Career Certainly Commitment Else Forever Frankly Go Institution Intended Just Myself Never Really Something Something Else Stable Suffer Were

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I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

~Clint Eastwood

Topics: Academy Because Do You Know First First Of All Jewish Know Make Money Much Never Old Oscar Secondly Those Too Too Much Too Much Money Why Will Win You

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There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

~Clint Eastwood

Topics: Academy Academy Award Award Best Great Just Lot Movies Won You

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I went to a small high school in - down in south Georgia. Terrell Academy is the name of it.

~Cole Swindell

Topics: Academy Down Georgia High High School Name School Small South

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The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.

~Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that stamp of approval of an Academy Award winner. And the good news is I got to learn the real process of filmmaking - directing, storyboarding, writing.

~Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Topics: Academy Academy Award Approval Award Based Been Directing Fact Filmmaking Films Good Good News Got Had Learn Made News Point Process Real Scripts Stamp Winner Writing

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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

~Dale T. Mortensen

Topics: Academy Christopher Diamond Each Economic Feel Foundation Great Honor Humbled Memory Named Nobel Peter Privileged Prize Royal Sciences Swedish Thank Very Winners Wish I Wish

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