Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.Jay Chandrasekhar
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
Malik Jackson -
I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
Aaron Neville -
If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
Samantha Power -
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
Nathaniel Branden -
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair -
Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
Dana Perino
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
Owen Paterson -
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus -
I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman -
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
Sam Waterston -
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Candice Bergen
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
Edmund Phelps -
In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
Zhang Yin -
When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
Imran Amed -
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo -
All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.
Malaika Arora Khan
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
Sally Yates -
Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
J Mascis -
My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams -
No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
John Muir -
I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
Jay Chandrasekhar