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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. -- Jack L. Chalker
I have actually five honorary degrees. -- Katherine Dunham
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. -- Karel Capek
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee. -- Dolly Parton
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish. -- Nathan Lane
I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw. -- Denise Mina
I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare. -- Rick Mercer
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. -- Neil Simon
I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s. -- Lech Walesa
Every member must work or quit. No honorary members. -- Charles Grandison Finney
The honorary duty of a human being is to love. -- Maya Angelou
I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's. -- Sofia Vassilieva
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession. -- Leon Askin
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. -- Melvin Maddocks
People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes? -- Neil Simon
Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best. -- Paul Dano
I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D. -- Iris Chang
If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen. -- A. L. Rowse
I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that. -- Jo Brand
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. -- Kitty Kelley
Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang. -- Ronnie Hawkins
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief. -- Max Horkheimer
President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association. -- Argus Hamilton
I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole. -- Red Auerbach
I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe. -- Brian Blessed
You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals. -- Jahangir Khan
The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses. -- Johan Huizinga
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different. -- Andrew Young
To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries. -- Randy Sandke
I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean. -- Branch Rickey
Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife. -- Andrew Schneider
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language. -- Charles J. Shields
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I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. -- Paul Watson
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two. -- N.D. Wilson
I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability. -- Jill Kelley
I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood . -- Hillary Clinton
I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del. -- Tom Douglas
I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees. -- Jessye Norman
The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. -- Julius Streicher
My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me]. -- Eric Idle
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed -- Blixa Bargeld
I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end. -- Johan Cruijff
Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group. -- Alice Cooper
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree." -- Sophie Germain
Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad. -- Rick Riordan

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