Scholarship Quotes - Page 5

• When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Volleyball, School, Player

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Nice, College

  "David Duke's View Of An Obama Presidency". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.

  Tracy Kidder

  Grateful, Writing, Grace

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Past, Disrespect

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• My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

  Ezra Koenig

  Dad, College, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship
  Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition
  And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home

  Kanye West

  Home, Ambition, Dope

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• This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

  Terry Teachout

  Games, Black, May

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• Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Drama, Men, Europe

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• Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Moving, Blessed

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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• We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

  Carl Sagan

  Military, Common Humanity, Decision

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.178, Ballantine Books

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• Curiously, for all the outpourings of scholarship on Theodore Roosevelt, no one had written a book focused directly on his leadership approach, working in large part from his own letters and other writings. That opportunity was open, and I was privileged to step in.

  James M Strock

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

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• People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

  Jesse Jackson

  People

  "Jesse Jackson Weighs in on Current Issues That Are Creating Racial Divides in the U.S". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2007.

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• Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Science, Feelings

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• By the time I got to high school, I didn't play anything but baseball because I was on a mission. I really wanted to get a scholarship. I really wanted to focus all my time and efforts on baseball. When I got up to Florida State, God spoke to me very clearly and called me out of that and called me into music, which up until that point had just been a hobby.

  Jonny Diaz

  Baseball, School, Florida

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

  Marc Blucas

  Sports, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Race, Brain

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Mere Literature”

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• My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Home, Eight, Israel

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloe Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

  Rita Mae Brown

  People, Creative, Process

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• I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

  James A. Michener

  Simple, Giving, Different

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• Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

  Manly Hall

  Wise, Lonely, Stars

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• When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

  Billy Sunday

  Hell, Word Of God, One Thing

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• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  R. C. Sproul

  Football, College, Church

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• For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Reading, Scripture, Affair

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• John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Yale, Administration

  "Failed States". Interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, chomsky.info. March 31, 2006.

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