Degrees Quotes
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When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.
Raul Ruiz -
I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out.
Katherine Shindle
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On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
Esther Perel -
There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.
Katy Grannan -
We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
Mother Teresa -
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.
Victor Hugo -
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
William Fleming -
I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.
Charles R. Morris
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
Wole Soyinka -
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
Terence McKenna -
Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.
Terence McKenna -
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.
Russell Banks -
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.
Mother Angelica -
Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to 'How's your cold' with 'It sucks.' So there should be an It Sucks cold formula.
Celia Rivenbark
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College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Ruby Wax -
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
William C. Wright -
There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.
Seth Lloyd -
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
Hilary Mantel -
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Milton Friedman -
Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.
Evo Morales
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Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.
Chris Gardner -
We would never have been crazy enough, insulated enough, bubble-wrapped enough, to think that it was impossible to sleep without it—especially at seventy-two degrees.
Benjamin E. Sasse -
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
Rex Harrison -
If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.
Michael Ian Black