Sarah West Quotes
I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.
Quotes to Explore
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I don't believe I should be out running for another office instead of running my office.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
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Each new situation requires a new architecture.
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The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
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Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.
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I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
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After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.
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In my actual life, a food adventure is my favorite thing to do.
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Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
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I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
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I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.
