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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Academy America Assumption Assured Category Correct Did Early Everything Except Fit Historians History Intellectual Known Nearly Past Politics Pursuit Social Somehow Stuffed Them Together Turned Which Would

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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Academy Academy Awards Awards Because Been Budget Business Couple Done Entitled Film Good Good Movies Just Just Because Made Make Million Movies Nobody Nominated See Some Think Whatever Wrong You I Can

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To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Academy Awkward Challenge Changes Despair Dying Everything Everything Changes Game Happy Just Love Poet Poverty Relationship State Wealth Where Work You

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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Academy Courage Generosity Thank Want

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My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

~Elizabeth Olsen

Topics: About Academy Because Brother Film Film Sets He Knows More New New York Sets Than Works York

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I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

~Elton John

Topics: Academy Anything Anything Else Away Banging Classical Classical Music Else Ever Heard Jerry Just Lee Lewis Little Music Richard Royal Sort Started Want

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When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

~Emily Robison

Topics: Academy Air Air Force Be Nice Brief Dream Fit Fly Force Go High High School Jets Nice School Thought Too Very

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A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school dedicated to educating Native-American boys.

~Eric Schneiderman

Topics: Academy Boy Dedicated Educating Founding Hamilton He Members New New York School Society Upstate York

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I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult for me to believe that it is true.

~Ernest Walton

Topics: Academy Believe Difficult Done Even Great Honour Me Royal Sciences Sincerely Swedish Thank True Very Wish I Wish

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It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

~Ethan Coen

Topics: Academy Academy Award Ambition Award Go Grow Grow Up Happens Never Up Weird Win You

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