I’m obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world – I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I’m ashamed to admit that I still can’t read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies.
I’ve voted in every election – not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it’s to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.
I’m a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I’m certainly not the first person to be working while I’m in university.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.
I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they’ve purchased. Failure doesn’t enter into anyone’s calculations.
I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.
On a certain level, I don’t think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It’s also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.
I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.
I did a degree in media and culture studies in London and moved there when I was eighteen from Paris.
I used to walk around saying that I’m just another black man without a college degree.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
To the extent that the United States has, I don’t like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don’t think that’s based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.
A degree of lying – you know, white lies – seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I’ve known for years are all in the industry together.
One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren’t entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself.
But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
I’m not saying M.B.A.s can’t be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don’t need a degree to figure out it’s costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.
But first I want to get my master’s degree at Columbia’s School of International Public Affairs.
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
Around the courthouse when defense lawyers are chatting about their cases, the only question they ask each other is can you put your guy on the stand? Those conversations always assume the defendant is guilty. The question is just about the degree of difficulty in presenting a defense.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.
Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines – to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
I’m not even an engineer. I don’t have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.
I know I’ve got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I’ve got a lifesaving certificate but I don’t spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I’m a genre writer.
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
I am shy by nature, a person who’s always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
I don’t really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
