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“It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.”

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Author:Ken Livingstone

“If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.”

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Author:Jeff Dunham

“I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.”

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Author:O.R. Melling

“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.”

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Author:Dorothy Allison

“Two Arts degrees does not a life make.”

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Book:A Place Like this

Source: A Place Like this

“It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.”

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Author:Fukuzawa Yukichi

“I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees. But actually that's our strength, not our weakness. Our intellectual training qualifies us better than any scientist - social or natural sciences - for us to understand that this is, au fond, not a scientific debate but a cultural and rhetorical one.”

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Author:James Delingpole

“Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?”

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Book:Tam Lin

Source: Tam Lin

“My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.”

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Book:Escape Velocity

Source: Escape Velocity

“I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.”

“The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.”

Source: The Ask: A Novel

“An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard