#scholars

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#film #movies #passion #scholars #scholarship

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#speech #men

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#full #got #i #into #julliard

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ↗

— Roman Payne

#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#athletic #been #college #go #i

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #badly #based #because

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#coexist #doubt #effort #exist #few

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#film #look #only #scholars #see

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#except #measure #never #person #power

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#attendance #building #i #proper #putting