About Quote by Said Sayrafiezadeh

I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple…

— Gerald Stern

Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced…

— Maya Wiley

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

— Michael Rosenbaum

When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I…

— Rodney Dangerfield

At first, things weren't going my way. I was something new - no one was going to take a chance on a black artist…

— Jimmie Allen

I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless about Wall Street. My first job there…

— Anthony Scaramucci

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too -…

— Frank Ocean

For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

— Sandi Toksvig

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did…

— Carey Mulligan

At 25, I had lost my job due to the economy, and my family wanted me to become a policeman or firefighter, but I…

— Michael Sorrentino

I was effectively unemployed after my son was born. I resigned from Bristol because I wasn't happy with the way my career was going…

— Alice Roberts