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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.


Jamie Foxx


#career #classical #college #day #every

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

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.


John Charles Polanyi


#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.


John Charles Polanyi


#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.


Simon Raven


#another #books #boring #concluded #drudgery

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.


David Remnick


#comes #difference #i #journalism #later

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.


Jim Jarmusch


#called #degree #feature #fellowship #film

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.


Peter Singer


#containing #dreamed #ever #everything #library

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.


Jack Steinberger


#chemical #depression #end #engineering #family

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






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