Quotes About Intellectual

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

I'm an intellectual.

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

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.

We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures.

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

I'm not like a high intellectual.