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The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
Tommy Chong
School
Degree
Finished
High
High School
Never
Advanced
Smartest
Doctorate
Know
Got
Jail
Billionaires
Street
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.
Tom Wolfe
Time
World
Overwhelming
Our
Join
Studies
Doctorate
Real
Times
American
Disease
Experiences
The Real World
Real World
Which
Urge
Grip
Newspapers
Working
Twisted
Received
Started
By The Time
As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.
Ahmed Zewail
Life
Good
Research
Alexandria
Good Life
States
Pursue
Journals
Doctorate
Instructor
Although
Left
Did
Want
International
United
United States
Published
University
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
School
Doctorate
Smithsonian
Got
Festival
Graduate
Graduate School
Working
Full-Time
Started
I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.
Bob Ainsworth
Great
Weaknesses
Pretend
Able
Direction
Write
Doctorate
Thesis
Strengths
I was told I have to work 10 years to get a doctorate. Well, I have worked all that time to become a doctor in professional wrestling. So to speak, I have a Ph.D. in professional wrestling.
Cesaro
Work
Time
Doctor
Speak
Become
Wrestling
Doctorate
Well
Years
Get
Worked
Professional
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.
David Morrell
People
Writing
World
Law
Some People
Military
Awareness
Some
Law Enforcement
About
Hostile
Attention
Major
Doctorate
Surprised
Persistent
American
Influences
James
Whether
Literature
American Literature
Might
Theme
Personnel
Enforcement
Paying
Military Personnel
Creator
Whose
Henry
Henry James
I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
Iris Chang
Work
Honorary
Considered
Doctorate
Equivalent
Maybe
Works
Received
If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.
John Knoll
Time
You
Engineer
Free
Older
Crew
Software
Photoshop
Brother
About
Guy
Free Time
Developed
Put
Idea
New
Doctorate
Were
Shift
His
Ultimately
Michigan
Getting
Working
Older Brother
Night
University
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
Kailash Kher
Seriously
Economics
Singing
Take
Lightly
Doctorate
Sing
Am
Afford
Oxygen
Literature
Even
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
Karl von Frisch
Doctorate
Vienna
Received
University
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
Kate Atkinson
Spent
Recognize
See
Postmodern
Doctorate
Doing
Years
American
Literature
American Literature
Four
I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
Kate Forsyth
History
Creative
Looking
Bitter
Component
Tale
Doctorate
Wrote
Am
Greens
Arts
The History Of
Theoretical
Novel
Now
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
Mayim Bialik
Parenting
Background
Definitely
Hormones
Attachment
Neuroscience
Study
Feel
Doctorate
Trained
Informed
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
Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.
Nia Vardalos
War
Birth
Incredible
Settle
Worry
Finding
About
More
Compromise
Doctorate
Freeze
Inequality
Soulmate
Geographical
Than
Get
Eggs
Your
Sociology
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.
Paul Heyse
Great
Year
Beginning
Changed
Dissertation
Classical
Poetry
Studied
Doctorate
Refrain
Taught
Romance
Where
Founder
Received
Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.
Peter Bergen
History
Thought
Long
Guiding
Harvard
Long History
Had
He
Doctorate
Also
Islamic
Terrorist
Jurisprudence
Groups
University
My Ph.D. is in computer vision and machine learning. I developed software that can read your emotions from your face as part of my doctorate work.
Rana el Kaliouby
Work
Learning
Emotions
Vision
Face
Software
Machine
Computer
Developed
Part
Doctorate
Read
Your
I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Me
Knowledge
You
Heart
Added
Hood
Distinguished
Out
Fine
Fine Arts
Put
Doctorate
Masters
Always
Am
Very
Get
Did
Going
Listen
Just
Arts
Want
Pull
I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.
Stephen Colbert
Me
College
Everybody
Fine
Fine Arts
Give
Doctorate
Call
Did
Arts
Illinois
Now
Dr
Speech
I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
Stephen Pagliuca
Education
Teacher
Degree
Economics
Pay
Since
Doctorate
Got
Been
Afford
Get
Going
Just
Loved
Ever
It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
Taj Mahal
Better
Honorary
Pretty
Exciting
Doctorate
Get
Any
Arts
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
I started to get my doctorate, not to be called 'doctor.' Those are just little things you get to get recognition.
John Kani
You
Doctor
Little Things
Those
Recognition
Doctorate
Get
Just
Little
Things
Started
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
Dolly Parton
Degree
Believe
Honorary
Given
Tennessee
Doctorate
Just
University
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