Alice Ripley Quotes
Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.Alice Ripley
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster -
Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
Zac Goldsmith -
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
Safra A. Catz -
Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
Zhang Jindong -
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria -
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Joanne Rowling
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx -
I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
Octavia Spencer -
'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney -
I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
Irina Shayk -
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
Gary Numan -
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
Samantha Morton -
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
Tamron Hall -
California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
Yi So-Yeon -
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
Camilla Lackberg
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
Tanc Sade -
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck -
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
Janos Kadar -
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
Sidney Hillman -
When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
Gail Porter -
Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.
Alice Ripley