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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.


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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.


David Bailey
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I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.


James Van Der Beek
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When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.


Brownie McGhee
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.


Paul Giamatti
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If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.


Lauren Willig
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
Steve Buscemi
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
Famke Janssen
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I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.
Matt Cameron
When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.
Philip Schultz
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I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would be relatively sunny, no matter what happened. I have never allowed myself to be bitter.
Angela Merkel
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The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.
Tony Dungy
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Whatever your path is, that's your path.


Ray Lewis
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
Baz Luhrmann
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
Marvin Olasky
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I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.
Alexandra Kleeman
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
Fleur East
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