Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Townsend

Whatever code of conduct they choose, the importance of ensuring an office romance doesn't cause conflict or have a negative impact on their employees' careers is paramount.

Darnell Jenkins

We made sure we sent our seniors off with a win. It was real important to win it for them. Some of them might pursue their careers in the NFL. Some of them might not. We just wanted to get them a memory before they left the Orange Bowl.

Rose Byrne

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Romola Garai

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

Rebecca De Mornay

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

Richard Gere

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Ricardo Semler

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

Richard LaGravenese

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

Richard Carmona

In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.

Daniel Solove

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Kurt Busch

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.

Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Judith Butler

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Judith Butler

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Oswald Chambers

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Monica Denise Brown

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

Kate Morton

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

Leo Tolstoy

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Lenny Kravitz

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

Karen Kingsbury

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

George Leigh Mallory

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Madeleine L'Engle

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Katherine Center

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.