I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
I'm an independent.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.