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I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
James Stewart
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Film Actor
Graduation
Architecture
Architect
College
Fun
Masters
Princeton
Scholarship
Degree
Graduated
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
/
Philosopher
Anger
Life
Power
Success
Wisdom
Time
Angry
Easy
Purpose
Right Person
Right Way
Way
Everybody
Person
Within
Anybody
Become
Degree
Right
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I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Min Kao
/
Electrical
Engineering
Taiwan
Tennessee
University
Am
Bachelor
Degree
Earned
Master
National
Received
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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
Li Ka-Shing
/
Investor
Inspirational
Journey
Knowledge
Age
Business
Constructive
Critical
Critical Thinking
Intelligent
Logical
New Age
Progress
Synthesis
Thinking
Vision
Approaching
Broader
Cannot
Without
Deduction
Degree
Merely
Skill
We Cannot
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I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.
Paula Poundstone
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Comedian
Annoying
Conversation
Degrees
Disorder
Numbers
Years
Steer
Diagnosed
Always Me Everyone
Degree
Trait
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Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.
Ellen Muth
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Actress
Last Year
Degree
Emerge
Real Characters
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
Ernest Hemingway
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Author
Alchemy
Clear
Endure
Forgotten
Fortunate
Man May Will
Degree
Eventually
Immediately
Possesses
Writes
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My knee bends only to a 60 degree angle. Normally, like on my right leg, my heel can touch my glute if I just pull my leg back. On my left side, there's still a big percentage missing. That has made me change my style in the ring.
Rey Mysterio
/
Angle
Left
Missing
Touch
Ring
Bends
Side
Degree
Heel
Leg
Normally
Percentage
Pull
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However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
Joe Slovo
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South African Politician
Combination
Crisis
Enemy
Large Scale
Mass
Resistance
Revolutionary
Strikes
Violence
Activities
Camp
Certain Degree
Civil
Degree
Essential
However
Provoke
Ultimately
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I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.
Anne M. Mulcahy
/
Degrees
Journalism
Magazines
Nine
Nine Months
Best Good Me
Anyway
Cosmopolitan
Degree
Magazine
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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
Archie Shepp
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Musical Artist
Avant Garde
Numbers
Originals
People
Play
Yeah
Music People Know
Considered
Degree
Few People
Material
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Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
Feist
/
Singer-Songwriter
Complicated
Just One
Lying
Melody
Simple
Song
Degree
Identify
Lies
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Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I graduated with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Really, the plan was for me to go to med school.
Steven Yeun
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Actor
Concentration
Doctors
Neuroscience
Parent
Psychology
School
Doctor Me Parents
Me Parents School
Doctor
Degree
Graduated
Originally
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Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?
Mike Huckabee
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Former Governor Of Arkansas
Add
Arkansas
College
College Degree
Economy
Income
Numbers
Percent
Years
Adult
Billion
Degree
Number
Million
Net
Realize
Result
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
Ed Rendell
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Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Active
Discussion
Be Happy
Degree
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If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
Angela Merkel
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Chancellor Of Germany
Ancestry
Certain
Common
Degrees
Fifth
Pride
Roots
Share
Today
German
Certain Degree
Degree
Fact
Indeed
Perhaps
Remind
Rightly
Safely
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
Chauncey Wright
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Philosopher
Confidence
Smile
Agreement
Belief
Degrees
Evidence
Mind
Ought
Produce
Agreements
Degree
Minds
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President Trump understands that President Putin does not like to be insulted. Putin takes it very personally. He harbors a grudge. He doesn't forget. And he will find some way of getting some degree of revenge as a result of that.
Fiona Hill
/
Grudge
Harbors
Insulted
Putin
Revenge
Trump
Degree
Personally
President Trump
Result
Understands
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I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!
Grey Delisle
/
Voice Actress
Kids
Class
Talking
Theater
Voice Over
Time Always Keep
Weird
Classes
Time Way Doing
Degree
Guess
Same Stuff
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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.
Charles Eastman
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Duty
Function
Parent
Solemn
Supreme
Approaches
Believed
Claim
Degree
Permitted
Priestly
Protecting
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The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
Ellen Swallow Richards
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Chemist
College Degree
Reputation
Study
Degree
Let Us
Ruining
Stake
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
Bayard Rustin
/
Activist
Conscience
Inconsistent
Vocation
Act
Degree
Follow
Merely
Receives
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I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.
Anna Pump
/
Education
Chef
Formal
Formal Education
Preparation
Talent
Actual
Cook
Claim
Degree
Difference
Title
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
/
Philosopher
Peace
Administration
Barbarism
Easy
Highest
Justice
Littles
Lowest
Natural
Opulence
Taxes
Tolerable
Brought
Carry
State
Course
Degree
Rest
Highest Degree
Requisite
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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
Derek Jacobi
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Actor
Teacher
Acting
Parent
Thinking
University
Degree
Fortunately
Gotten
Parents
Worked
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I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.
Kevin Smith
/
Screenwriter
Character
Real
Real Life
Ripped
Thinking
Life Moment Me
Life Always Moment
Bad Thing
Life Moment Always
Degree
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In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.
Francois Englert
/
Decided
Engineering
Physics
Realised
Structure
Theoretical
Understanding
Applications
Less
Degree
However
Practical
Underlying
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I went to college, I wrestled and I took some amateur fights. When I graduated, I wanted to start using my degree, but I figured I would start fighting professionally. Then I won 18 in a row and I fought Eddie Alvarez on pay-per-view.
Justin Gaethje
/
College
Fighting
Amateur
Degree
Eddie
Won
Fought
Graduated
Professionally
Row
Took
Using
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I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.
Rain Dove
/
Berkeley
California
Engineering
Genetic Engineering
Pay
Scholarship
Beginning
Civil
Degree
Eventually
Genetic
In The Beginning
Pursuing
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I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.
Laura Vandervoort
/
Actress
Black
Instant
Martial Arts
Train
Used
Had
Arts
Belt
Doing
Star
Degree
Got
Martial
Second
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Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all.
Holly Marie Combs
/
Actress
Ambition
Weird
Anything Else
Creates
Degree
Personally
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The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
Ken Macleod
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Fiction Writer
Caution
Engineering
Humanity
Ideas
Real
Real World
Unpredictable
Complex
Controlling
Degree
The Real World
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I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.
Brian Selznick
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Illustrator
Intention
Islands
Requirements
Rhode Island
School
Classes
Degree
Island
Illustrator
Rhode
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What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
Jock Sturges
/
Photographer
Abuse
Artist
Children
Forever
Real
Sight
Terrible
Lose People Will
Degree
Desires
Devastating
Whatever
Sexual
Lose
Real People
Suffer
Victims
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My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.
Joan Ganz Cooney
/
Television Producer
Nbc
Steel
Degree
Reporter
Hour
Newspaper
Rca
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I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven't had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I'm not prepared to do it.
Diana Rigg
/
Film Actress
Admire
Compare
Discipline
Jane
Prepared
Degree
Fonda
Jane Fonda
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I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn't really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.
Jimmi Simpson
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Actor
Pennsylvania
Theatre
University
Degree
Moneymaking
Situations
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My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate school, completely co-ed, in 1945. My mother got her college degree in 1920. What's the problem? Those opportunities were always there for women.
Phyllis Schlafly
/
Lawyer
College Degree
Graduate School
Harvard
University
Women Great Always
Degree
Master
Graduate
Opportunities
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You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.
Stewart Butterfield
/
Ability
Cohesion
Higher
Native
Team
Together
Working Together
Much
Less
Take
Degree
Effective
Working
Terms
Where
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Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.
William Henry Ashley
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American Politician
Government
Chiefs
Council
Degrees
Disposition
Expressive
Friendly
Particular
Sincerity
Degree
Towards
Highest Degree
Manifested
Several
Speeches
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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
Idina Menzel
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Actress
Sister
Awe
Brilliant
Parent
Single Parent
Younger Sister
Degree
Earn
Master
Juggle
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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.
Jonathan Kozol
/
Writer
Entitlement
Goodness
Ought
Satisfaction
Sheer
Utilitarian
Considerations
Degree
Entangled
Unencumbered
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When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.
Kay Cannon
/
Film Writer
Bunch
Homework
Theater
Deadlines
Degree
Graduated
Group
Improv
Musicals
Plays
Right Away
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I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.
Jack W. Szostak
/
Biologist
Science
Contribution
Degrees
Desire
Driven
Fascinated
Intense
Scientist
Success Always Know
Although
Original
Degree
Intense Desire
Precisely
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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Wilson Mizner
/
Playwright
Anger
Inadequate
Inevitable
Long
Occasions
Provocation
Scripture
Conceived
Degree
Rule
Sinful
Slight
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
Adam Davidson
/
Accounting
Buying
Cult
Touched
Alien
Weeks
Conclude
Degree
Entirely
Tons
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The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
David Korten
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Author
Buyers
Cost
Degrees
Economy
Equity
Market Economy
Principles
Sellers
Costs
Degree
Fundamental
Small
Implies
Market
Producer
Price
Substantial
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
Otto Schily
/
Government
Certain
Degrees
Determine
Police
Surveillance
Video
Certain Degree
Degree
Facilities
Federal
Governments
However
Railroad
State Governments
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For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.
Kenneth Burke
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Author
Classification
Continuity
Corresponding
Degrees
Different
Different Kinds
Kind
Specialization
Degree
Industrial
Required
Status
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I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
John Edward
/
Television Personality
Journey
Believe
Illness
Leaving
Accident
Certain Degree
Degree
Prepare
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