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Sarah West Quotes

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

Topics

Manager Leaving Two Bored University

When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

Writing Back Party Kind First Our

Christmas music is usually more concentrated pop music in a way. It's meant to make us feel good, and it's meant to make us like we belong somewhere.

Good Music Feel Good Feel Christmas

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

Work Quality Someone You Know Need

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Mother Teacher School Child House

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

Mireille Guiliano

Believe You Lost Will More Force

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

Judge Mills Lane

People Think Back Compliment Try

I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run of it in this job. So, I went downtown in Chicago, and I went up on a stand-up stage and did an open mic. It went well, so I'm like, 'Alright, I'll give it another try.'

Jay Chandrasekhar

Job School College High School Run

Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?

God Childhood Questions Philosophy

I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.

Words Me Action Think Someone Say

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

Christine Taylor

Never Been Actress Would Made Had

I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing.

Crazy Think You Play Know Important

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

Think You Much Anyone Decathlon

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