Degree Quotes

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
Arne Duncan

After, College, Anyone

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.
Edward G. Rendell

Happy, Law, Goal

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
Werner Erhard

Life, Keep, Works

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.
Scott Speedman

Two, Lived, York

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.
Christy Romano

School, Public, Master

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
Tom Daschle

President, Enthusiasm, Budget

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.
Tom Daschle

Freedom, Matter, Majority

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
Patrick Rothfuss

Religion, Philosophy, Find

As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss

Art, Human, Trying

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Robert Motherwell

Becomes, Generally

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.
Jim Parsons

School, Fun, Person

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.
Lincoln Chafee

Education, Children, College

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

Real, Humanity, Impossible

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.
Grandmaster Flash

Attitude, Looking, Guy

Composing demands a degree of isolation.
Cliff Martinez

Isolation, Composing, Demands

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells

Government, Law, Order

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
Heinrich Mann

Means, Goodness, Highest

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
Helen Garner

Job, College, Arts

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
Norman Lamm

Love, Good, Best

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Mark Kelly

Couple, Bachelor, Marine

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Francis Picabia

Men, Maybe, Misery

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
Chaka Khan

Real, Getting, Street

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
Chaka Khan

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
Ted Shackelford

Men, College, University

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.
Robert C. Solomon

Around, Fact, Word

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.
Angela Ruggiero

Power, Give, Play

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
Vanessa Mae

Time, History, Mom

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
Herb Ritts

Business, Learning, Though

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
David Knopfler

Pretty, Getting, Found

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.
Emeli Sande

Music, Education, School

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