Worked Quotes
3192 quotes by 2620 authors
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My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my…
— Eva Vertes
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Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played…
— Ernest Cline
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My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a…
— Amanda Donohoe
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What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women -…
— Amanda Schull
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The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great…
— John McWhorter
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose…
— Vince Vaughn
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At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very…
— Geoffrey Canada
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When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart…
— George Smoot
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There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I…
— James Balog
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If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted…
— Tom Brady
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Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
— Janine di Giovanni
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On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever…
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different…
— Lewis Gordon Pugh
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The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so…
— Brenda Laurel
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I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the…
— Derek Theler
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I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out,…
— Diane Farr
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in…
— Ed Asner
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Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably…
— Mark Pagel
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
— Jack O'Connell
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