#scholarship

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

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

— J. G. Holland

#except #measure #never #person #power

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

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#important #nation #need #people #safe

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

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#applied #choice #dedicated #faculty #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

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