#degree

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#arrested #arrested development #degree #development #man

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. ↗

— Emma Watson

#degree #fulfill #history #i #interested

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#bringing #college #degree #get #pencil

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#degree #foundation #government #inhabitants #law

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#belief #confidence #degree #evidence #high

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#classically #cook #degree #degrees #doctorate

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#degree #forms #inherent #know #languages

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English. ↗

— David Mamet

#admire #asked #degree #down #english

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ↗

— Al McGuire

#bartender #college #degree #educated #everyone

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees