A Quote by Walter Alston

I put myself through college playing pool.

Walter Alston

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College Myself Playing Pool Put Through

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Walter Alston
American - Athlete
December 1, 1911 - October 1, 1984

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

Brenda Brathwaite

I put myself through college.

Chuck Liddell

I worked to put myself through college.

Carole Radziwill

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

Joshua Jackson

I'm lucky I'm tall and skinny, and I got to model to put myself through college.

Diana Silvers

I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.

Jacky Rosen

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials - that's actually how I put myself through NYU and through college.

Tom Ford

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

George Miller

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Michele Bachmann

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.

Allison Williams

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

Mindy Kaling

I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college.

Nell Carter

I didn't really enjoy being at college, because I was putting myself through college. We just didn't have the money. I was responsible for that, so I was constantly looking for scholarships, grants, and work-study opportunities.

Kim Hawthorne

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

Al Jourgensen

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

Arthur Godfrey

This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

Matthew Desmond

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