Scholarship Quotes - Page 7

• I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.

  Trevor McNevan

  Sports, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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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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• 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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• They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

  Jay Leno

  America, Missing, Way

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

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• I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

  Joan Chen

  Summer, Couple, School

  Source: collider.com

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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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• I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Mother, Eye, America

  "Boris Kodjoe Interview UNDERCOVERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2010.

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• Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant.

  Suze Orman

  Children, School, Cards

  "Debt vs. debt: Which loans do I pay off first?". "Today" Interview, www.today.com. May 6, 2009.

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• My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.

  Blake Bailey

  Mother, Father, School

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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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• 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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• The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humorous, Phones, Intellectual

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company

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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 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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• I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

  Alan Bennett

  School, Ideas, Forgotten

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

  Ryan Murphy

  School, Parent, Too Much

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• I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

  Eva Longoria

  Acting, Talent, Wonder

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values. The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values, it becomes holy scripture, an inspiring lesson and guide,. Therefore I exhort you: Let Truth and Love be the goals for all your efforts and studies.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Skills

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• ...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

  Jonathon Keats

  Reason Why, No Reason, Bubbles

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• There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Successful, Men, Ideas

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1988). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Practice, Matter, Students

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• However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Humanness Is, Intellectual

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• Another big difference about not being in college: In college, you're on the team, you're competing for the NCAA - luckily I had a full scholarship and I was taken care of - then all of a sudden you're a pro and you've got to take care of yourself. I'm gonna keep doing the same thing, keep training, and hopefully everything works out.

  Jonathan Horton

  Team, Taken, College

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he is wrong - and I think I can show, by analyzing his slipshod scholarship and basic misunderstanding of science, that his world is an invention constructed to validate his own private hopes ... Rifkin shows no understanding of the norms and procedures of science: he displays little comprehension of what science is and how scientists work.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Years, Understanding

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• If you want to find a way to keep illegal immigrants, you know where they are, you give them a driver's license. It helps with - they all get insured, it helps with traffic safety. I believe education is the key. Yeah, I was for kids of illegal immigrants, if they fulfill the same academic requirements as New Mexico kids, to be eligible for a scholarship. I believe we have to bring the 12 million undocumented workers out of the shadows, set up a standard where they speak English, if they pass background checks, pay back taxes, obey the laws, embrace American values, give them a chance, a path to citizenship, not amnesty.

  Bill Richardson

  Amnesty, Drivers, License

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 27, 2007.

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