Degrees Quotes - Page 52

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

Water, like many other resources is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

Im not trying to stay in the same place and Im not trying to compete with whats currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, Im different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

I think there is also a certain degree of expectation that's set up by trailers, where even if you know what's going to happen in parts of the film based on the trailer, you almost anticipate and look forward to those moments based on having seen the trailer.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

[Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while, to get it right. Which is why I sometimes listen to music when I'm revising. Music creates moods for me quicker than any other medium.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.