I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
Indra Nooyi
ParentsMeAmericaScholarshipGroup
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
Michael Eric Dyson
BestJoyScholarshipSittingStrive
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
SchoolAmericanScholarshipNever
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.
Derek Walcott
MathematicsScholarshipPoorPass
I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.
Ashton Eaton
SchoolHelpScholarshipDivision
When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'
Mark Wahlberg
SchoolCollegeGoSaidScholarship
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
Ezra Koenig
EducationCollegeGoScholarshipUp
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.
Paul Di Filippo
LifePeopleHumanityScholarship
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
GoodSchoolHigh SchoolScholarship
There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
Ian Lustick
ScholarshipDefendIsraelRoleStill
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 Polanyi
TruthLibertyScholarshipOverTake
In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.
Mary Ellen Mark
MorningWalkLookScholarshipUp
Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.
Dawn Richard
MusicSchoolGameGoScholarship
I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.
Punit Renjen
SchoolScholarshipTwoJeansUp
The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.
Lionel Blue
ManifestScholarshipRealHimHow
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
Ellen Wilkinson
EducationScholarshipMy OwnOwn
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.
Neil Gaiman
WorkDaySchoolCollegeScholarship
I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
Taylor Branch
FreeThinkScholarshipMoreGive
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
FootballCollegeChurchScholarship
Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
Frances McDormand
ScholarshipYale
I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.
Summer Glau
ScholarshipCompanyKidAlwaysBeen
In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
Molly Ivins
CongressScholarshipAspireHerOnly
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
David Stras
I AmScholarshipFanKnowsMostAm
I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
Scott Brooks
CollegeGoScholarshipWithoutKids
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