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I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.
Rain Dove
Great
Law
School
Degree
Beginning
Pay
Engineering
Way
Berkeley
Out
Civil
Through
Pursuing
Had
Scholarship
Genetic
Genetic Engineering
California
Got
Very
In The Beginning
Which
Hard
Eventually
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
Culture
Books
Philosophy
Out
Marshall
Write
Scholarship
Most
Most Wanted
Read
Intellectual
Won
Essays
Oxford
Wanted
Public
Us
Figure
Help
Who
Strengthen
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
Richard Flanagan
Imperial
Scholarship
Study
Instituted
Cecil
Oxford
University
I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to college in the United States. By the time I graduated, we had a full-blown civil war in both Liberia and Sierra Leone. I couldn't go home.
Richelieu Dennis
War
Time
Home
College
Enough
Sierra
Sierra Leone
States
Civil
Civil War
Both
Had
Scholarship
Go
Go Home
Get
Graduated
Fortunate
United
United States
By The Time
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
Robert Hass
Money
College
Year
Lost
Enough
Enough Money
Had
Had Enough
Scholarship
Hills
Tuition
Board
Room
My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.
Roger Taylor
Education
Music
Me
School
Father
Own
Introduction
Some
My Own
Winning
He
Scholarship
Qualifications
Cathedral
Came
Up
Get
Ended
Quite
Much
Keen
Early
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
Ronald Biggs
School
Building
Proper
Scholarship
Attendance
Putting
Around
Won
Screwed
I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.
Rory Kinnear
Love
Music
Me
People
Thought
Once
About
Scholarship
Put
Doing
Off
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
Rupert Graves
School
Sense
Entirely
Exams
Never
Scholarship
Got
Left
Uneducated
American
Did
Any
Blue-Collar
Public
Working-Class
Public School
I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.
Rupert Graves
You
Too
Kind
Would
Determined
Pursue
Could
Scholarship
Know
Always
Get
Wanted
Far
Far Away
Act
Grant
Even
Away
Levels
Early
Two
Needed
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
Ryan Murphy
Me
Money
School
Too Much
Made
Parents
Too
Too Much Money
Had
Scholarship
Accepted
Been
Afford
Get
Much
Film
Film School
I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.
Sarah Shahi
Good
Me
Sports
Mother
Pressure
College
Single
Kind
Nerdy
Having
Never
Football
Scholarship
Attention
Single Mother
Coming
Odd
Go
Texas
Get
Grades
Which
Really
Paid
Mecca
Played
Good Grades
I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
Scott Brooks
College
Seven
Kids
Would
Athletic
Able
Scholarship
Without
Go
Been
Youngest
My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.
Scott Hall
Daughter
Blessed
Scholarship
Feel
Academic
Central
Florida
University
The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't have a scholarship. But I always felt I could make it to the NBA; it was as if I had foreseen my future, and I knew I would make it.
Scottie Pippen
Future
Me
Odds
Would
Could
Had
Scholarship
Knew
Arkansas
Make
Felt
Always
Arrived
Were
Foreseen
Central
Against
Barely
NBA
I wasn't given a scholarship out of high school, and that allowed me to learn what hard work was early on.
Scottie Pippen
Work
Hard Work
Me
School
Out
High
High School
Given
Allowed
Scholarship
Learn
Hard
Early
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
Alone
Me
Nothing
Books
Hundreds
Would
One Thing
Boring
Scholarship
Soon
Induce
Drudgery
Make
Read
Another
Concluded
Very
Notes
Thing
I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.
Stan Freberg
Mother
Three
Before
See
Could
Take
Had
Scholarship
Tournaments
California
Because
Won
Get
Wanted
Bus
Hollywood
Agent
If I Could
Stanford
Started
Speech
My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, 'Jeopardy!' champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton, sung about by Ludacris, and serenaded on 'Sesame Street' by a chorus of Muppets.
Steve Rushin
Champion
Wife
President
President Clinton
Finalist
Sung
All-Star
About
Scholarship
Clinton
Gold
Who
Chorus
Jeopardy
Street
Muppet
Olympic
Sesame
Olympic Gold
Sesame Street
In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.
Stuart Appleby
You
Competition
College
Airport
Scholarship
Ticket
Make
Go
Australia
America
Just
Want
Golfer
Plane
Plane Ticket
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.
Susan Choi
Success
Good
Good Job
Job
Degree
Daughter
Immigrant
Excellent
Scholarship
Stepping
Feel
Get
Grades
Graduate
Graduate Degree
Stones
Conventional
Flawless
Full
Raised
Needed
Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.
Theodore Zeldin
Religion
Debate
Big
About
Never
Scholars
Part
Scholarship
Judaism
Dogmatic
Big Part
Anything
Which
Loves
Agree
Played
There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.
Tim Tebow
Training
Job
Later
Out
Stay
Someone
Scholarship
New
Spot
Always
Up
Denver
Get
York
New York
Your
Reason
Florida
Earlier
Jets
University
Position
My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
Tony Visconti
Family
School
Brilliant
Father
College
Down
High
Record
High School
Could
Had
He
Scholarship
Scholastic
Support
Continue
His
Unfortunately
Turn
Awarded
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
Trevor Nunn
Education
Me
Parents
First
Big
Gone
Possibly
Winning
Scholarship
Because
Without
Big Break
Cambridge
Go
Very
Afforded
Break
Lucky
University
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
Victoria Jackson
Life
Love
True Love
College
Too
Married
Gymnastics
He
Scholarship
True
Fell
Got
Very
Romantic
Who
Whole
Now
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