The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Henry Rollins

Money Criminal Instead Scholar

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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

Creativity Essence Originality Scholar

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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Max Weber

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Been Commonly Great Great Men

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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu

Comfort Deemed Fit Love

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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Umberto Eco

Am Call Features Human

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I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Uzo Aduba

Arts Athletic Because Boston

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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

R. C. Sproul

Actually Any Because Church

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Greatest People Scholars Wisest

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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Carl Sandburg

Dictionary Earlier Help Poets

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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Moliere

Appear Pray Scholarly Speak

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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind

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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Reid Hoffman

Books Culture Essays Figure

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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Robert Burns

Brass Collar Gentleman Him

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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

Between Difference Fuzzy Merely

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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Leonard Cohen

Am Does Face I Am

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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

Any Career Classical College

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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

Actually Beautiful Because Cello

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When an African man gets a scholarship to study in the UK, he packs everything up and leaves but when a woman gets a scholarship, she asks if the scholarship might extend to support the children.

Akanimo Odon

Gets Scholarship Study Packs everything

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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

Death Cinema Passion Art

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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Henry Rollins

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Max Weber

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Umberto Eco

I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Uzo Aduba

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

R. C. Sproul

Geoffrey Chaucer

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Carl Sandburg

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Moliere

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Reid Hoffman

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Robert Burns

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Leonard Cohen

Jamie Foxx

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

When an African man gets a scholarship to study in the UK, he packs everything up and leaves but when a woman gets a scholarship, she asks if the scholarship might extend to support the children.

Akanimo Odon

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

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