Andrew Skurka Quotes

I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

Andrew Skurka

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• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  

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• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

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• We've been probably to some degree too successful.

  

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• Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

  

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• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

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• I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

  

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• I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.

  

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• The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

  

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• I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Up
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• 'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'

  

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• I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

  

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• By not tying policy to a small set of forecast indicators, we may sacrifice some degree of simplicity, but we are less likely to be misled when a favored variable behaves in an unusual manner.

  

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• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
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• Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

  

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• Of their high degree of interaction and the expanded distribution reach which enables to closely manage our distribution costs and increase our sales.

  

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• Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

  

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• Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

  

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• Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

  

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• Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.

  

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• Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

  

  Barry Unsworth
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  • Dark

• I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

  

  Andrew Skurka
  • Degree
  • Adventurer
  • Backpacker