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I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced. Sue Hubbell

Business Son Husband Farm Librarian Married Bought Divorced Academic Commercial Moved Worked Professor Started Raised University

At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego. Susumu Tonegawa

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I am my own Universe, I my own Professor. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Own Universe My Own Am Professor

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it. Tara Westover

Class Word College First Define Never Had Know Until Because Heard Hand Semester Ask Asked Holocaust Moment Professor Raised

I want to be an activist professor. Tariq Ramadan

Want Activist Professor

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction. Teju Cole

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I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. Temple Grandin

Myself Thought College First Autism Secondary College Professor Always Specialist Professor

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass. Tia Carrere

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor. Tom Berenger

History Guess Were Actor Professor

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. Tom Glazer

We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based. Tyler Winklevoss

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels. Victor LaValle

On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. Werner Arber

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I had, in college, a professor called Walter Jackson Bate, and he taught a course called The Age of Johnson. It's about Samuel Johnson and his period, 18th-century British writing. So we all got to endure Samuel Johnson, and Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' is now my favorite book. I read it all the time I can; it's great for going to sleep. Whit Stillman

Life Time Great Age Book Writing College Favorite About Johnson Had He Period Read Course Got His Jackson Going Taught Endure Samuel Now Professor British Sleep

I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early. Wolfgang Paul

Life Father Chemistry Research Medicine Has-Been Laureate Having Student Had Studied He Nobel Became Chemical Scientist Been Up Familiar Laboratory Quite Where Grew Professor Early University

Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist. KT Tunstall

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When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions, and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life. Justin Lin

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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Umberto Eco

Myself Think I Think Weekend Writes Who Serious Novels Professor

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont. Zephyr Teachout

Family Writing Law Spend Summers Vermont Researching Lives Professor

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