Books Quote by Reid Hoffman

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,

— Thomas P. Campbell

I could go to Oxford, I could immerse myself in a new culture, I could develop my intellectual capital, I could expand my network,…

— Myron Rolle

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and…

— Emma Rigby

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

— Vivek Wadhwa

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies…

— Harold E. Varmus

In many ways, the effort to study philosophy was my rebellion away from medicine. I'm the son of two Indian immigrant physicians, so the…

— Atul Gawande

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

— Richard Flanagan

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

— Billy Boyd

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to…

— Bernard Williams

Apart from being an actor, I'm an academician. I wanted to pursue something with which I could bring about a change in society.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman