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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
William S. Burroughs
Art
Myself
Writing
Degree
Other
Write
Writer
Never
He
Almost
Demands
Like
Know
Until
Because
Hand
Going
Automatic
Premeditation
Speaking
Help
Paint
Activity
Differs
As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way, too. But after a while, I said, 'Let me just finish the degree. I'm getting the G.I. Bill.'
William Sanderson
Life
Me
Army
Book
Law
Degree
Doctors
Too
Saving
Way
Finish
Lawyers
Point
Had
He
Noble
Idealistic
Stevenson
Read
Became
Felt
Said
Friends
Person
Getting
Just
Anybody
After
While
Bill
Youngster
Who
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone
Knowledge
World
Degree
Books
Diminished
Some
Had
His
Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.
Winslow Homer
Will
Black
Degree
Picture
Beauty
White
Marked
Destroy
Black Or White
Written
Takes
Attention
Print
Printed
Very
Any
Anything
Utterly
Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
Yair Lapid
World
Degree
Academic
Israeli
Salaries
Western
Western World
Hold
Required
Lowest
Teachers
I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Love
Result
Sometimes
Too Much
Degree
Lost
Too
Dining
Fine
About
Because
Effort
Little
To Love
Much
Used
Appetite
It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.
Yvonne Strahovski
Myself
Journey
School
Degree
First
Drama
Drama School
Months
TV
TV Series
Classic
Three-Year
More
Throughout
Support
Like
Couple
Got
Australia
Role
Commercials
Get
Roles
Six
Graduated
After
Straight
Then
Regular
Acting
Your
There And Then
Series
Here
Started
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Degree
Princeton
Year
Summer
Moore
Seemed
More
Had
Academic
Instructor
Obtaining
Accept
Been
Than
Personal
After
Social
Reasons
Desirable
The age of the universe is not just 'a guess', but rather it is a carefully measured number that is now known to a high degree of accuracy.
Simon Singh
Age
Degree
Universe
Carefully
Guess
High
Rather
Known
Accuracy
Just
Measured
Now
Number
Courts are grappling with what it means to be 'part of' al Qaida or the Taliban - every case poses a unique challenge, involving individuals with a different degree and type of connection to these terrorist organizations.
Tony West
Challenge
Degree
Every
Type
Case
Part
Individuals
Taliban
Involving
Terrorist
Courts
Different
Means
Organizations
Grappling
Connection
Unique
Al
Poses
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Isaac D'Israeli
Degree
Power
Doubt
Rose
Increased
Local
Rule
Distracted
Arabian
Weakness
Exact
Some
Temporary
Proportion
Importance
Most
Princes
Periods
Without
Always
Hebrew
Certain
I was educated in the Washington public schools and attended the University of Maryland as a day student, graduating in 1938 with a degree in chemistry. After working for the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, for a year, I returned to the University of Maryland to take a Master's degree before going on to Yale to pursue a doctorate.
Raymond Davis, Jr.
Day
Degree
Master
Chemistry
Year
Before
Public Schools
Pursue
Student
Take
Maryland
Attended
Doctorate
Schools
Returned
Yale
Chemical
Educated
Michigan
Going
Graduating
After
Public
Working
Company
Washington
University
To me it is just common sense that we should be making apprenticeships readily available to every young person who wants to go down that route - and encouraging people to consider taking this path just as readily as we would encourage someone to look into a university degree.
Layla Moran
Me
People
Path
Degree
Young
Sense
Down
Every
Consider
Would
Someone
Taking
Look
Readily
Making
Go
Encourage
Encouraging
Person
Just
Common
Wants
Common Sense
Available
Young Person
Should
Who
Route
University
At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Work
History
You
People
Degree
College
Important
Not Talking
Other
Right People
Say
Jobs
College Degree
About
Bearing
He
He Or She
Like
Tick
Talk
She
Learned
Talking
Does
How
Lot
Off
Person
Interact
Awful
Right
Awful Lot
Things
I've got two undergraduate degrees: one is a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and a Master's in Psychology. I'm gunning for my Ph. D. in Psychology but that's currently on hold.
Xavier Woods
Degree
Master
Bachelor
Philosophy
Degrees
Undergraduate
Got
Currently
Hold
Psychology
Two
I have my Masters degree in international relations, banking job experience with Citibank, and I have also worked in developmental organisations.
Soha Ali Khan
Experience
Job
Degree
International Relations
Relations
Citibank
Developmental
Also
Masters
Banking
Worked
Organisations
International
When I finished my degree I became a physics and maths teacher. And worked in the international school in Brussels, because like many kids, after University I went home going ‘ahhh I don’t know what to do’. I happened to fall upon a job there because they were desperate for a physics teacher which is a common theme among many schools.
Layla Moran
Teacher
Home
Physics
School
Desperate
Job
Degree
Finished
Fall
Kids
Brussels
Like
Know
Schools
Became
Because
Were
Maths
Going
Common
After
Happened
Which
Theme
Worked
International
Many
Among
University
Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.
John McDonnell
Path
Degree
Out
More
Qualification
Than
Going
Process
Grinding
Much
Should
Mechanical
Career
Career Path
University
I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.
Mitt Romney
Future
Try
Degree
Think
I Think
Way
See
Able
Some
Shape
Take
Leaders
Effective
Then
Certain
Certain Degree
Actions
Hong Kong is the city with the highest degree of freedom of all the Chinese territories.
Joshua Wong
Freedom
Degree
Hong Kong
City
Highest
Highest Degree
Territories
Kong
Chinese
If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.
Max Scherzer
Me
Hurt
Degree
College
Nothing
College Degree
Got
Getting
Going
Stop
Anything
Need
Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.
Max Boot
Knowledge
History
Degree
College
Minimal
College Degree
Does
Getting
Even
Guarantee
Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree.
Dolores O'Riordan
You
Degree
Parents
Once
Though
Secure
Bad
Diploma
See
Lifestyle
Doing
Were
Years
Years And Years
Contract
Where
After
Prefer
Succeed
Your
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
Tom Stoppard
Political
Election
Degree
Enthusiasm
Party
Every
Never
Voted
Always
Political Party
Same
Any
The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals, and problem-solving techniques are represented and put together, and not so much on the fine details.
Marvin Minsky
Knowledge
Man
Together
Intelligence
Goals
Degree
Machine
Ways
Details
Fine
Put
Qualities
Depends
Problem-Solving
Much
Show
Many
Techniques
You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.
Ken Loach
You
Insecurity
Degree
About
Through
Feel
Always
Getting
Film
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