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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. -- Irvine Welsh
Its 75 Degrees! In December! -- Sarah Dessen
I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music. -- Drew Lachey
Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil. -- Ayn Rand
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. -- Clark Coolidge
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him. -- Benjamin Franklin
It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler! -- Lewis Black
I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me. -- Adam Rapp
Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood. -- Gabourey Sidibe
We boil at different degrees. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We boil at different degrees. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have actually five honorary degrees. -- Katherine Dunham
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. -- Victor Hugo
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. -- Jason Kidd
We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees. -- Todor Zhivkov
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology. -- Elizabeth Moon
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. -- Ambrose Bierce
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. -- William Ralph Inge
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. -- Francis Beaumont
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. -- Voltaire
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. -- Stendhal
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. -- Elbert Hubbard
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. -- Munshi Premchand
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. -- Marian Wright Edelman
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? -- William Shakespeare
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it. -- Ernest Holmes
O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! -- Joseph Banks
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. -- Tina Weymouth
Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment. -- Laura Bell Bundy
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. -- Comte de Lautreamont
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. -- Donald A. Norman
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant. -- John Henrik Clarke
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. -- Charles Babbage
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
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. -- Norman Cousins
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary. -- Junipero Serra
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. -- Earle Brown
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. -- Eric Alterman
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. -- Stephen Covey
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. -- Thomas Paine
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. -- Reza Aslan
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader. -- Taylor Swift
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. -- Tom Brokaw
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. -- Henry Rollins
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
What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered. -- Elon Musk
We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree. -- Mark Pocan
Dallas is an extraordinary place in it's own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can't get away from, particularly when I arrived, you've got no idea of the heat in this place. It's over 100 degrees, and with that the humidity is ridiculous. I mean, people don't live here, armadillos live here. -- Chris Vance
The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. -- Ridley Scott
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things. -- Dianne Feinstein
Good is done by degrees. -- George Crabbe
All habits gather by unseen degrees. -- John Dryden
Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom. -- Marshall Goldsmith
Lying, like license, has its degrees. -- George Sand
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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. -- Jean Racine
There are no degrees of honesty. -- Ronald Reagan
Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees. -- Delphine de Girardin
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? -- Zaha Hadid
Two Arts degrees does not a life make. -- Steven Herrick
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees. -- Kristin Cashore
Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees. -- Camille Paglia
I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out. -- Katherine Shindle
Not your degrees, but your choice, defines your intelligence. -- Debasish Mridha
The center of the earth is about a million degrees. -- Al Gore
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. -- Anthony Burgess
There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore. -- Pietro Mascagni
All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through. -- John Webster
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated. -- Jeph Jacques
I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly. -- Canibus
Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION. -- Morag Barrett
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. -- Roland Barthes
There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility. -- Steig Larsson
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons. -- David Hockney
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. -- John Archibald Wheeler
It is because people exist in varyinig degrees of the dream. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't. -- Sam Rayburn
I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees. -- Scott Adams
I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business. -- Glen Taylor
The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph' -- Bear Grylls
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good. -- Meher Baba
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. -- Lewis H. Lapham
How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands. -- Seth Green
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. -- Ron Suskind
It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. -- Henry David Thoreau
I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees. -- Jessye Norman
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. -- John Dryden
It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade. -- Keith Murray
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. -- Kathryn Stockett
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The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong -- Donald Barnhouse
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom. -- Sivananda
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. -- David Alan Grier
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death -- Cressida Cowell
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. -- Gregory Keyes
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. -- Elbert Hubbard
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives -- Andreas Schleicher
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives. -- Andreas Schleicher
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things. -- Thomas Carlyle
I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. -- Zooey Deschanel
106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents. -- Jay Leno
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We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. -- Bo Lozoff
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. -- E. W. Howe
Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees. -- John Wesley
Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began. -- Mara Liasson

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