Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job.… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart. — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the… — David Chang Copy Share Image
If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells… — Rashid Latif Copy Share Image
'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
We have got to go and compete for the minds and the hearts and the votes of everybody in this country, no… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
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