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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman
Degree
College
Economics
Took
Courses
English
There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.
Patrick Collison
Degree
Stripe
Rigor
Excellence
Higher
Demanded
Most
Operational
Than
Companies
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
Patrick Rothfuss
Religion
Me
Degree
Every
Changing
Took
Nine
Philosophy
Astronomy
Eastern
Find
Could
Studied
Almost
Make
Course
Got
Years
Anthropology
Graduate
Psychology
Interesting
Kept
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss
Art
You
Degree
Somebody
Else
Our
High
Empathy
Feel
Like
Most
Make
Condition
Trying
Authors
Human
Human Condition
Means
Show
Portraying
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt
Funny
Humor
Degree
Hiding
Recognized
Ability
Horrible
Poems
Point
Write
Had
Attempts
Lightness
Wrote
Dialogue
Very
Any
Impulse
Short
Intentionally
Stories
Short Stories
Certain
Certain Point
Fun
Serious
Novels
Number
Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
Patrick deWitt
Daily
You
Degree
Reading
Own
Books
Write
Writer
Well
Read
Forget
Your
Hard
Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.
Paul Allen
Love
You
Degree
Become
Once
Following
More
Football
Sport
Than
Get
Did
Owner
Much
Really
Team
Help
Now
To some degree, I don't think 'Batman' works in a completely modern city; I think Gotham has be reflective of his personality and those of his enemies.
Paul Dini
Personality
Enemies
Degree
Think
Batman
Those
City
Some
His
Reflective
Modern
Works
I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree.
Paul Henderson
Today
Degree
Mind-Boggling
Sign
Mail
Get
Did
Autographs
Fan
Fan Mail
Much
Certain
Certain Degree
Many
Played
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Paul Ryan
Life
Mom
Morning
Business
New Life
Degree
Every
Earned
Madison
Small
Small Business
New
She
Learned
Got
Years
Rode
New Skills
Died
Just
Bus
Skills
Miles
Each
Dad
Each Morning
Livelihood
Her
Start
I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.
Paula Poundstone
Me
Conversation
Degree
Back
Everyone
Some
Something
Steer
Annoying
Diagnosed
Always
Years
Years Ago
Trait
Where
Happened
Which
Really
Disorder
Number
In March 2013, FinCEN issued guidance for virtual currency businesses - giving the industry some degree of clarity about how to be compliant on the federal level.
Perianne Boring
Guidance
Degree
Giving
Virtual
Compliant
Clarity
Some
About
Federal
Federal Level
Industry
How
Currency
Businesses
March
Level
I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.
Pete Doherty
Degree
Singing
Stage
Live
More
Involved
Always
Than
Acting
Enjoyed
I was raised evangelical, so if you want to get offended, let's get offended. I have a master's degree in being offended.
Pete Holmes
You
Offended
Degree
Master
Get
Being
Want
Evangelical
Raised
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
Pete Townshend
Faith
Religion
Degree
Other
Follow
Disbelief
Any
Suspend
Order
Organized
Organized Religion
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
Peter Diamandis
Great
Degree
Addressing
Focused
Emissions
Prize
Usage
Petroleum
Carbon
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Peter Gallagher
Life
Regret
Try
Rest
Degree
My Life
Economics
About
Give
Accepted
Lousy
Get
Graduation
Acting
Businessman
People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.
Peter Jackson
Good
Character
People
Strong
Degree
Think
Considering
Characters
Strong Female
Some
Wrong
She
Sort
Female
Female Character
Female Characters
Proves
Surprisingly
Accuse
Modern
Being
English
Who
Tolkien
Professor
Actually
For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'
Peter Morgan
You
People
Events
Thought
Degree
Interviews
Those
Totally
Had
Narrative
Were
Same
Eight
Where
Different
Room
Them
Really
Who
Each
Present
We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children.
Peter Paige
Generation
Degree
Guns
Entire
Access
Prioritize
Children
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
Peter Sarsgaard
Degree
Typecast
Everyone
Worry
About
Being
Mean
Hollywood
Much
Really
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
Peter Thiel
Time
You
Degree
Think
Our
System
Something
Compute
Part
Part-Time
Global
Around
Real
Educational
Existing
Clock
Effort
Done
Intensity
Sustained
Anything
Cannot
Breakthroughs
Requires
I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.
Phil Robertson
You
People
Matter
Thought
Degree
Half
Master
Back
Kinda
About
Case
Guys
Shakespeare
Know
Liked
Looked
Got
How
Dumb
Intelligent
Just
Them
Acted
Show
Show People
Ever
Actually
Needed
I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.
Phil Robertson
Man
Degree
Master
Some
Maybe
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Man
People
Degree
Every
Generally
He
Becomes
Converse
Certain
Certain Degree
Every Man
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Great
Fear
Degree
Fools
Too
Respectable
Respected
Though
Must
Knave
Mass
Majority
Mankind
Certain
Means
Certain Degree
Who
Number
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