Assistants Quotes - Page 3

• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Finest

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.

  Sarah Sutton

  Writing, Doctors, Stories

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• We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

  Martin Luther

  Instruments

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.16

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• Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

  Joan Baez

  People, Justice, Doe

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I tell my assistant “I'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother me”

  Scott Borchetta

  Jesus, Busy, Bother

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• A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here.

  Wallace Stegner

  Book, Weekend, Two

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• You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big.

  Marcelo Claure

  People, Office, Environment

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.

  Paul Smith

  Years, House, Four

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• I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Mean, Want

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 175), 1986.

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• Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.

  Warren G. Harding

  Marine, Men, West Indies

  "Democracy at the Point of Bayonets". Book by Mark Penceny, 1999.

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• I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

  Angela Kinsey

  Normal, Target, Entourage

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• No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

  John Lee Mahin

  Men, Order, Giving

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• When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Photography, Cameras, Firsts

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• My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Science, Montana, Occupation

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• Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?"

  Keith Waterhouse

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

  The Spectator, January 15, 1994.

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• You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

  Joe Biden

  Giving, President, Vices

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

  Anthony Crosland

  Air, Class, Differences

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

  Alexander Wang

  School, Pace, Way

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• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Recovery, Exercise, Science

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.

  Christian Dior

  Christian, Years, Secret

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• Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

  Henry Fuseli

  Character, Criticism, Envelopes

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• My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

  Roger Corman

  Father, Film Critics, Criticism

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• I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.

  William Shatner

  Jobs, Track, Theatre

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

  Joss Stone

  Country, People, Tea

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• Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

  Adam Oates

  Player, Littles, Coaches

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