I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world. For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one particular path. But enlightenment doesn't care how you get there. And if you aren't going to be thinking about it in paradise, then don't worry about it now.
In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.
You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.
It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.
America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.