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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 / Author
Daughter
Encouraging
Encouragement
Achievement
Awards
Book
Degrees
Honorary
Lifetime
Strange
Published
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Kevin Kline is an honorary Brit.
Bryce Dallas Howard / Film Actress
Honorary
Kevin
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I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
Lech Walesa / Former President Of Poland
Honorary
More Than
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I have actually five honorary degrees.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Degrees
Honorary
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Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.
Charles Grandison Finney / Minister
Honorary
Members
Quitting
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I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood .
Hillary Clinton / Former United States Secretary Of State
Honorary
Knighthood
World
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I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.
John Cameron Mitchell / Actor
Honorary
Village
Jewish
Lady
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I'm an honorary consul general so I have inviolability.
Jill Kelley / Socialite
Honorary
Important
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I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.
Tom Douglas /
Hometown
Honorary
Newark
Mayor
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I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
Jessye Norman / Opera Singer
Degrees
Honorary
Doctorate
Recipient
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
Taj Mahal /
Honorary
Doctorate
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I wanted to do my doctorate. I got honorary doctorates which made me feel very fulfilled.
Poonam Dhillon /
Fulfilled
Honorary
Doctorate
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It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
Leon Askin / Actor
Honorary
Profession
Great Deal
Receive
Title
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I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's.
Sofia Vassilieva / Film Actress
Cancer
Honorary
Ambassador
Associated
Jude
Stand Up
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
Jack L. Chalker / Author
Baton
Honorary
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mayors
Rouge
Colonel
Mayor
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Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
Dolly Parton / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Degrees
Honorary
Tennessee
Doctorate
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Karel Capek / Writer
Ants
Granted
Honorary
Literature
Thee
Victory
Appoint
Colonel
Servants
Thou
Thy
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I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
Laurie Graham /
Honorary
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Melvin Maddocks /
Approval
Boy Scout
Honorary
Jazz
Congressional
Scout
Seal
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
Iris Chang / Historian
Honorary
Considered
Works
Doctorate
Equivalent
Received
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Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best.
Paul Dano / Actor
Biggie
Honorary
Lennon
New Yorker
Yorker
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I'm vice chairman of the American Wild Horse Protection Association and honorary chairman of the Wildlife Federation.
Lorne Greene /
Association
Chairman
Federation
Honorary
Horse
Protection
Wildlife
Vice
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I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me.
Justin Cartwright /
Honorary
Oxford
Colonial
Fellow
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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 / Actress
Boys
Brother
Comic
Honorary
Thinking
Alongside
Brothers
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I'm a Leo, with an Aquarian mid-heaven, so I can be mistaken for an Aquarius. My Sun-Uranus conjunction in Leo makes me an honorary Aquarian anyway.
Roland Orzabal / Musician
Aquarius
Honorary
Mistaken
Conjunction
Leo
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I was named honorary woman of distinction 2007 for the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, and I have recently become involved with Save the Children's Make Time for Change.
Gena Lee Nolin / Actress
Distinction
Honorary
Named
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In 2007, I was given the humbling privilege of being made an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps in recognition of my visits to troops during the Iraq War.
Chuck Norris / Martial Artist
Honorary
Humbling
Iraq War
Marine
Marine Corps
Privilege
Recognition
Troops
Corps
Member
Visits
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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 / Actor
Catholic
Church
Honorary
People
Best People Way
Jewish
Best People Feel
Behaving
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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 / Crime Writer
Ceremony
Glasgow
Honorary
Laughing
Outlaw
Painful
Shoes
University
Way
Degree
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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 / Actor
Climbing
Honorary
Scotland
Two
Love Work Nothing
Wallace
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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 / Comedian
Travel
Healthcare
Honorary
Impact
Organization
Patron
Real
Scope
Canadians
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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 / Musician
Gang
Honorary
Motorcycle
Mayor
Member
Wherever
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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 /
Honorary
Pakistan
Results
Squash
Accountable
Achieved
Chief
Chief Executive
Executive
Hire
Professionals
So-Called
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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 / Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Accepted
Degrees
Honorary
Rejected
Sat
Applied
Schools
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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 / Journalist
Died
Fellowship
Honorary
Minnesota
Saint
Starting
University
Committee
Senator
Mccarthy
Member
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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 / Author
Granted
Honorary
March
Tongue
Bridge
Dr
Dr. King
Each Generation
Forth
Status
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I've been in all kinds of various arrangements of chain of command, and I was very comfortable - and everybody was - and I think the music shows that. I'm an honorary Foo Fighter, I guess. Or alumni or something. I'm proud to be one.
Joe Walsh / Former United States Representative
Alumni
Arrangements
Honorary
Chain
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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 / Playwright
Graduation
Degrees
Honorary
Matter
People
Sat
School
Vocation
Life Me People
Generally
Led
Low
Regular
Schools
Scores
Whose
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Being given the honorary rank of brat is the armed services' way of saying thank you to us kids for having grit too. They understand that when one member of a family joins the military, the whole family bears the weight of their service.
Harris Faulkner /
Thank You
Armed Services
Bears
Brat
Grit
Honorary
Military
Weight
Armed
Member
Rank
Service
Thank
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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 / Writer
Afterlife
Behave
Capacity
Honorary
Humanist
Isaac
Late
President
Rewards
Science Fiction
Writer
Asimov
Fiction Writer
Punishments
Succeeded
Utterly
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Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.
Asif Kapadia / Filmmaker
Dessert
Dinner
Honorary
Scorsese
Student
Doctorate
Final
Martin
Martin Scorsese
Mentioned
Smuggled
Tutors
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JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.
Charlene Tilton / Actress
Comic
Honorary
Larry
Award
Emmy
Multi-Dimensional
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
Waite Hoyt / Baseball Player
Babe
Honorary
Sides
Standing
Steps
Yankees
Me People New
Must Me People
Carrying
Cathedral
Tremendous
Street
Me Street People
Joe
Pat
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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 / Activist
Environmental
Century
Florida
Honorary
One Thing
Proud
Republic
Time I Am Me
Heroes
Did
Award
Oh
Won
Magazine
The One Thing
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I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.
T'keyah Crystal Keymah / Producer
Active
Florida
Honorary
Lifetime
Membership
Preparation
Return
University
Visible
Captain
College Campuses
Fondly
Greeks
Letter
Reflect
Thrilled
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It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.
Alvin E. Roth /
Ability
Association
Black
Economic
Given
Honorary
Japan
Nobel
Tokyo
Turns
Unexpected
Unimaginable
Belt
Followed
Laureate
Perhaps
Sciences
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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 / Novelist
Achievement
Artistic
Complexity
Convenience
Honorary
Merit
Realism
Safety
Term
Life Work Reality
Arrangement
Builds
Conferred
Equally
Literary
Matches
Page
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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 / Author
Men
Athlete
Brown
Clubs
Golf
Honorary
Muhammad
Rebellious
Aaron
African
Ali
Gained
Substitute
Hank
Jim
Jim Brown
No Question
Simpson
Status
Tony
Viewed
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