#scholarship

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#including #interests #liberty #over #precedence

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

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

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#beautiful #because #cello #college #different

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

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

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#high #high school #howard #i #performing

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#speech #men

In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#evidence #historical #r-alan-woods #reliability #reliable

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#full #got #i #into #julliard