Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Elizabeth Warren

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• It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Strange
  • Beer

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Know

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Friends

• It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Job
  • Team
  • Best

• Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • School
  • Friends

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Job
  • Enough
  • Drummer

• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Job
  • Son

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Job
  • End

• Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • School
  • Experience
  • History

• Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Creativity
  • Teaching
  • Encouraging

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Real

• Pessimism is rife in Israel.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • School
  • Job