I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.
Meaghan Jette Martin
ThinkEveryoneDegreeAcceptedWants
I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.
Julianna Margulies
SchoolLawPlanLoseNothingDegree
Being married is not the same as having a kid because being married to another adult who can take care of themselves to a degree is different than having a kid that is completely dependent on you.
John Legend
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I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
James Nesbitt
ActorDegreeUniversityStarted
I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise.
Matthew Stewart
PhilosophyDegreePreciseGerman
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac
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What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to want to write like the classic private-eye writers.
Michael Connelly
MeTableWantWriteClassicDegree
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
Henry Gray
AnimalBodyToughnessDegreeBone
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock
TrustMenDishonestyKnowingDegree
Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with.
Graydon Carter
CreativityTelevisionDegreeCompete
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud
ValueDriveDegreeCertainNeurosis
Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
Evan Osnos
HelpQuotationTwoSingleDegree
To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.
Robert C. Solomon
InfluenceWorldThinkDegreeDollar
I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
Elizabeth Berg
LifeHumorFindReflectDegreeMix
It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
Ruth Handler
SuccessTimeAmazingDegreeLength
No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.
David Petraeus
BusinessWorldNowPrivilegeDegree
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.
Michael Korda
AloneMoneyPeopleLeadDegreeHigh
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
David Grann
ThinkDesireDegreeTellStories
The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.
Jules Verne
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To some degree, I think playing yourself has to be earned.
Cazzie David
YourselfThinkDegreePlayingEarned
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
Jose Saramago
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell
KnowledgeFactsEmotionsDegree
There's a degree of deception in silence.
Don Lemon
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I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.
Alain de Botton
LoveThinkDegreeHelpfulPessimism
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