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I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor… — Alan Patricof
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how… — Sister Souljah
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a… — Bebe Moore Campbell
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even… — Susan Cain
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming… — Richard V. Allen
[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the… — Helen Merrill
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to… — Miles Davis
There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before… — Henry Ford
It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment… — Jolene Blalock
I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film. — Hilary Swank
I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It… — Rose McGowan
I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George… — Mark Russell
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place… — Albert Hofmann
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them… — Geezer Butler
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. — Clive Anderson
The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish… — Dominick Dunne
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand — Mother Jones
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read… — Anne Rivers Siddons
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy. — Wally Lamb
The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear… — Sue Monk Kidd
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines)… — Guy Davenport
I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and… — Yanni
It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others. — Terry Fox
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. — Jim Hightower

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