#scholars

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today. ↗

— Debbie Meyer

#available #college #done #had #i

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#african americans #athletic #award #been #conference

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ↗

— William Penn

#extinguishes #many #mind #much #natural

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public. ↗

— John Podesta

#aggressively #american #american public #been #both

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#available #chicago #educated #education #great

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#brilliant #college #continue #could #down

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next. ↗

— Ibn Warraq

#criticism-of-the-koran #death #destructive-cult #houris #islam

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#cooking #down #ended #full #go

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. ↗

— Edward Norton

#going #having #i #i remember #kid