Phil Robertson Quotes

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I plan on getting my Ph.D. from the city of Stockton.

I went to NYU undergrad, then went to AFI for grad school.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A's in high school (except for driver's ed and typing).

I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.