#scholars

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dice #down #i #mistake #never

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#fell #got #gymnastics #i #life

Scholars will argue with each other about everything. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#argue #each #everything #other #scholars

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school. ↗

— William H. Gray

#argument #colorblind #equal #fair #free

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. ↗

— Robert Burton

#make #mayors #officers #scholars #year

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. ↗

— Juan Cole

#another #before #class #go #party

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human