TCU - they told me they were going to offer me a scholarship and kind of drug it out. I told other schools I wasn't interested because I thought I was going to be there. They disappointed me and kind of hung me out to dry right before signing day.
Baker Mayfield
DayMeThoughtScholarshipKindOut
I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.
Jerry Hall
SchoolYearScholarshipChemistry
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
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I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.
Jason Chaffetz
FootballPlaceScholarshipYoung
If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
Colin Kaepernick
FootballScholarshipGotGoing
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.
Nina Bawden
GoodQueenWarWorldScholarship
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau
LearningRespectMenScholarshipOut
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
Bernard Williams
PhilosophyScholarshipStudyGet
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
Edwin Moses
SchoolScholarshipGetAthletics
Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.
Jack Youngblood
MeBelieveEnoughLongScholarship
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
Barack Obama
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After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.
John Cornforth
WorkResearchYearScholarshipTwo
I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.
Robert Battle
MiamiGoScholarshipNeverGotCame
I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.
Jon Huertas
EducationMoneyScholarshipWayGet
I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
Chuck Feeney
WarScholarshipSpecialOutGot
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
Noam Chomsky
WarColdAmericanScholarshipOnly
Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
Gloria Steinem
HistoryFierceUniqueScholarship
I'm saving money like there's no tomorrow because, when I was at Juilliard, I had so little. They gave me a full scholarship because I didn't come from a wealthy family or anything.
Alex Sharp
FamilyMoneyTomorrowMeScholarship
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
Edward Norton
SchoolRememberScholarshipKidMars
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.
Jack Bruce
MotherTimeChurchScholarshipStudy
If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
Michael Corbat
FootballSchoolGoalScholarship
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
Ronald Biggs
SchoolBuildingScholarshipScrewed
The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.
Dominique Dawes
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
Anthony Anderson
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