Emeril Lagasse

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.

American Chef

Kofi Kingston

My mom worked her way all the way up; she has a doctorate in anthropology. Imagine doing that while having three kids. It's just amazing. She provided the best possible example in terms of chasing your dreams.

Ghanaian Wrestler

Julia Holter

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

American Musician

Gwendolyn Brooks

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

American Poet

Tommy Chong

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.

Canadian Actor

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either.

American Athlete

Sharmila Tagore

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

Indian Actress

Dolly Parton

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

American Singer

Jessye Norman

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

Karl von Frisch

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

Austrian Scientist

A doctorate shows a high level of expertise in an academic field after extensive study.

Academic Achievement

It typically takes years of study beyond a bachelor's or master's degree to earn a doctorate.

Extended Study

Despite common belief, a doctorate isn't limited to medical fields; it's for all academic disciplines.

Not Just Medicine

In informal contexts, 'doctorate' can be used to commend someone's vast experience in a non-academic field.

Metaphorical Use

This colloquial usage doesn't mean an actual degree; it's just a figure of speech for expertise.

Not Literal

Using 'doctorate' metaphorically implies deep respect for someone's skill or knowledge.

Respect and Mastery

 felt i feel like a lot of the time i just kind of think what would i have felt if i was stuck on a boat my ship's about to go i don't see land in sight well what would i have done rachel's now getting her doctorate in environmental engineering it's this connection to the past and ken's devotion to the future

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 her career might have ended there. Fortunately, it didn’t. She earned her doctorate in pharmacology and accepted Chicago’s invitation to stay as faculty, where she undertook pioneering research on drugs and fetal safety. In 1950, she earned an MD, her fourth and final degree. By the time she joined the FDA,

How one scientist...

 This is the wrong way of looking at it. You need to look at it in the way that you look at mountain rescue. When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue, you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

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 he uh by profession he's a psychophysicist now i should tell you that i have no idea what um psychophysics is although at some point in my life i dated a girl for two years who was getting her doctorate in psychophysics um we should tell you

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 with part time jobs. Still, she had to leave school before completing her doctorate to provide for her ailing father and sister. Carson found part time work with the Bureau of Fisheries writing for a radio program on marine biology.

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 And by profession, he's a psychophysicist. Now, I should tell you that I have no idea what psychophysics is, although at some point in my life, I dated a girl for two years who was getting her doctorate in psychophysics.

Choice, happiness and...

 When I became a psychologist, I began to notice favoritism of a different kind; and that is, how much more we value the body than we do the mind. I spent nine years at university earning my doctorate in psychology,

How to practice...

 afternoon so I thought just to help some people out as obviously I've been doing a lot of research my doctorate was actually on leopard behavior ecology and conservation and for those who didn't know I have

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 But I felt enough is I'm a scientist, I have a doctorate in astrophysics, I've published in the top journals, in wave-particle interactions, space physics,

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 I received a Truman Scholarship, a Fulbright and a Soros Fellowship. And I could list more. But I won't. I earned my doctorate at Columbia University.

Doctorate