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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.
Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.
I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.
I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.
Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment.
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.
The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?
My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.
The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.
The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent