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I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.
A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.
The 'Will Powers' story is like my life to a certain degree.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.
I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.
There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.
I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree.
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.
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.
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.
A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.
I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.
We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.
The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.
I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In fact, everyone! So I let them burn to a certain degree, and then I put out the fire for a while.
You can only pre-plan stuff to a certain degree because there are so many variables - road conditions, weather conditions, mechanicals... You have an idea of whose wheel you want to be on.
My 'Glee' experience taught me - to a certain degree - not to listen too much to fan backlash, at least to negative things. Once you have the job, you have the job, and you've got to do it.
We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.