Degrees Quotes - Page 39

• Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

  Denis Hayes

  Humility, Yesterday, Environmental

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• What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

  William Wilberforce

  Country, Civilization, Doe

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• I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Personality, Trying, Twenties

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

  John Legend

  Focus, Sound, Albums

  "EXCLUSIVE: John Legend Talks New Album, Film Ventures, NBA Predictions, Marriage, More". Interview with Elle Breezy, singersroom.com. May 9, 2013.

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• View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . . When we set aside specific time to listen, He often encourages us with His presence and promises, and interprets to some degree the circumstances of life. Take advantage of the natural lull after hard times when you're pulling together the pieces to sort through the events and ferret out the lessons.

  Jean Fleming

  God, Hard Times, Opportunity

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• The Christians and the Jews do not believe that the Bible is the verbatim words of God. In fact it is clear that the books of the Bible are written by men - allegedly inspired men - but humans nonetheless. God in the Bible is spoken of in third person. This gives the believer a degree of caution. If the writers of the Bible were humans and humans are fallible, the Bible should not be taken literally. It is possible to interpret it, use one's logic to understand it in the light of science and adapt its teachings to meet the needs of the time.

  Ali Sina

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.

  Liz Garbus

  Couple, Years, World

  "Interview: Liz Garbus, ‘Bobby Fischer Against the World’". Interview with Russell Cook, cine-vue.com. April 7, 2011.

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• When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

  Richard Rohr

  Mirrors, Way, Void

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• You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Odds, Feelings

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Eye, Vote

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

  Todd Solondz

  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

  Dorothy Allison

  Art, Writing, Responsibility

  "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.

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• Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

  Curtis Jackson

  College, Needs, Requirements

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• Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Moving, Blessed

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Buddhism, Light, Stronger

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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• "You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Self, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.736, Manonmani Publishers

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• I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.

  Augusten Burroughs

  College, Years, Two

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back.

  Andy Andrews

  Rocks, People, Looks

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Living an Extraordinary Life, Finding Your 'Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

  Robert Longo

  Thinking, Drawing, Tools

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.

  Betty Friedan

  Taken, Media, Organization

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Powerful, Men, Jail

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Satisfaction

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree in the pipeline from carbon we've already emitted. What we're talking about now is whether we're going to have a difficult, difficult century, or an impossible one.

  Bill McKibben

  Talking, Pipeline, Temperature

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it's really the truth.

  Eric Kandel

  Running, People, Mind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

  Otis Moss III

  Strong, White, Community

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