Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
PeopleMeCountryPlacesMoreGive
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
J. Philippe Rushton
SchoolCanadaPlacesAfricaLater
If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.
Chip Gaines
WorkGoodGreatYouGoPlaces
My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.
Paul Polman
CareerCircumstancesPlacesNever
I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.
Michael Franti
HappinessGoPlacesMoreSmilesSee
Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.
Kelly Asbury
StoryArtistPlacesDirectorHead
I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
Karan Mahajan
JobEnergyIndiaPlacesAroundLot
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.
Cheo Hodari Coker
MeTalkingEarthImportantPlaces
Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life.
Paul Giamatti
LifeMy LifeNowPlacesNeverGet
When I write about places in L.A. - like where the best taco truck is or something - it's not about L.A. To me, it's about Harry Bosch, because he's the guy that does these things and has this experience.
Michael Connelly
BestExperienceMeTruckPlacesGuy
For me, I believe that Dale Jr. has had a big part in kind of stunting the growth of NASCAR because he's got these legions of fans and this huge outreach of being able to reach different places that none of us have the possibility to reach, but he's won nine races in 10 years at Hendrick Motorsports and hasn't been able to reach outside of that.
Kevin Harvick
GrowthMeBelieveReachKindPlaces
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
Ice Cube
SmartPeopleChancePotentialPlaces
Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
Chris Stapleton
MusicSupportCountryPlacesUp
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
Patrick Stump
BusinessMusicYouTruePlacesFew
I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
John Shelby Spong
LifeYouEarlyPlacesRightEnemies
I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.
Julian Lennon
SmallDoneKindPlacesMankindBig
Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
Hailey Gates
FashionPlacesOutsidersRefugeTend
I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.
Conrad Anker
ThinkYoungPlacesWildAlwaysGuy
Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.
Marc Andreessen
TimeMediaPlacesOldClearlyUp
You don't get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.
Amitabh Bachchan
TimeTogetherAwardYouMeetPlaces
I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport.
Janet Fitch
MeFeelYouAirportPlacesWhere
I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
Gail Collins
GodEnergyInterestingKindPlaces
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
Claudia Rankine
SportsThinkPlacesRaceOutWhere
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
James Cameron
StoryExplorationReturningPlaces
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