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To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.
Michael Beck
Degree
Become
Kind
Classic
Classics
Involved
Well
Cult
Been
Very
Movies
Certain
Certain Degree
Fortunate
Certainly
Warriors
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.
Michael Ignatieff
Democracy
Degree
Sense
Recognized
Properly
Rational
Through
Arises
Institutions
Make
Legitimacy
Legitimate
Regard
Proceed
Process
Which
Decisions
Justified
Public
Us
Acts
Coercive
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Michael Korda
Success
Work
You
Hate
Job
Degree
Face
Pleasure
Out
Directly
Fact
Proportional
Squarely
Get
Your
Desire
Chances
I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.
Michael York
Writing
Degree
Bits
Journalism
Always
Done
Graduated
English
Enjoyed
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.
Michele Bachmann
Work
Education
Post
Law
School
Degree
Husband
Lawyer
States
Kids
William
Ourselves
At-Risk
Only
Charter
Federal
Mary
Scholarship
Doctorate
Court
Education Reform
Five
Reform
Tax
Children
Foster
Foster Children
Serious
United
United States
Applied
Started
Raised
I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.
Michelle McCool
Education
Degree
Master
Earned
State
State University
Athlete
All-American
Florida
University
I wanted to have something to fall back on. I got my degree in business administration.
Mickie James
Business
Degree
Fall
Back
Administration
Something
Got
Wanted
You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.
Mike Birbiglia
Work
You
Try
Degree
Live
Believe
Think
Sick
Secrets
Only
Know
Your
Expression
Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?
Mike Huckabee
You
Result
Degree
College
Year
Increase
Add
State
Would
College Degree
Net
Percent
Could
Adult
Arkansas
Economy
Just
Realize
Billion
Who
Income
Million
Number
The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
Mike Nichols
Kindness
You
People
Degree
Self-Defense
Thinking
Danger
Must
Generosity
Learn
Hear
Hear People
Just
Where
Different
Which
Peculiar
I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients' experiences.
Mikhail Varshavski
Knowledge
You
Communication
Doctor
Focus
Degree
Think
More
Picking
Bedside
Patients
Experiences
Manner
Should
Less
I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.
Milan Kundera
Life
Myself
Soul
Degree
My Life
Nothing
States
My Soul
Almost
Am
Discreet
Pathological
Against
Incapable
Speaking
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Millicent Fawcett
Success
Politics
Best
Words
School
Political
Thought
Degree
Politician
Able
Attach
He
Himself
Course
However
Influence
Which
Succeeded
Personally
Meaning
Meaning Of
Then
Measured
Mill
I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Min Kao
Degree
Master
National
Engineering
Earned
Bachelor
Degrees
Taiwan
Tennessee
Am
Native
Electrical
Received
University
When I got my first VP title at 26, my parents finally stopped asking when I was going to get my law degree.
Mindy Grossman
Law
Degree
Parents
First
Finally
Got
Get
Going
Stopped
Title
Asking
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
Miriam Toews
Life
Degree
My Life
Master
Point
Instead
Up
Irish
Ended
Getting
Wanted
Literature
Pregnant
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
Moby
Success
You
Degree
Never
Had
Fail
Learn
Hubris
Whenever
Breeds
I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.
Mohsin Hamid
Degree
Incompetence
Think
President
Unlike
President Trump
Most
Also
Sort
Around
Trump
Which
Businesspeople
'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events.
Morag Joss
Interior
Events
Degree
Following
Mental
Very
Large
Night
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.
Morrissey
You
Yourself
People
Better
Degree
Power
Older
Think
Positions
Those
Must
See
Some
About
Absolutely
True
Feel
Most
Because
Inept
Makes
Get
Younger
Realize
Skill
Naturally
Who
Position
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
Mother Angelica
Love
Friendship
Needs
Man
Basic Needs
Degree
Satisfied
Both
Share
Greater
To Love
Lesser
Basic
Two
We are so accustomed to love on a human level that we find loving God for Himself either impossible or beyond our capabilities. We tend to love those who appeal to us, render us a service, or are good to us. In the degree they perform these various services, we love them.
Mother Angelica
Love
Service
God
Good
Impossible
Degree
Our
Those
Find
Various
Tend
Perform
Beyond
Render
Himself
Accustomed
Human
Either
Loving
Capabilities
To Love
Them
Us
Who
Appeal
Level
Services
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
Nancy Allen
Music
School
Degree
College
Back
Back To School
Musical
Musical Theater
Minute
Having
Pursue
Pursued
Knew
Got
Began
Graduated
Wanted
Theater
Working
Career
The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.
Nancy Dubuc
Success
You
Business
Balance
Degree
Beauty
Mistakes
Move On
Project
Some
About
Having
Risk-Taking
Put
Learn
Integral
Move
Behind
Them
Success Is
Next
Your
Media
You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
Nancy Roman
Time
You
Sky
Degree
Long
Unless
High
Able
Atmosphere
Above
Pointing
Long Periods
Advantages
Periods
Up
Accuracy
Get
Getting
Cannot
Region
Exploit
Reasonably
Keep
The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
Natasha Richardson
Degree
Girl
Back
Bit
Hurry
Scenes
Head
Days
Cry
Couple
Messes
Because
Makeup
Trailer
Upset
Your
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