Worked Quotes
3192 quotes by 2620 authors
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When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend…
— Barbara W. Tuchman
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My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!
— Zig Ziglar
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I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd…
— Sanjeev Bhaskar
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My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home…
— Siobhan Fallon Hogan
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The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority…
— Michael Arrington
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When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot,…
— Alex Gibney
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Having travelled and lived and worked in many different places, I was keen to come back and settle in Nottingham, partly because my family are…
— Nicola Monaghan
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I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many…
— Mary Barra
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I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.
— Harvey Mason, Jr.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
— Sam Reed
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
— Florence Green
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It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
— Hal Rogers
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When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run…
— Phil Roe
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My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and…
— Ann McLane Kuster
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The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits…
— Jerrold Nadler
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Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a…
— Doug Harvey
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I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our…
— Doug Harvey
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I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did…
— A. R. Rahman
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