Office Quotes - Page 28

• I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Commitment, Thinking

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• The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, Class, President

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 1999.

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• I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

  Pauley Perrette

  Girl, New York, Jobs

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• You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

  Aidan Quinn

  Stars, Thinking, Facts

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• Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.

  Christina Romer

  Fall, Turkeys, Cliffs

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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• My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.

  David Rubenstein

  Father, Thinking, America

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• I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

  James Rollins

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Nursing, Emotional, Race

  "How to Make the U.S. a Better Place for Caregivers" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.theatlantic.com. May 14, 2013.

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• At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mail, Information, Flow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

  Ken Salazar

  Running, Gasoline Prices, Oil

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• Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, President, Littles

  Newt Gingrich at GOP Primary debate at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Giving Up, Writing, Missing

  "What are you looking at?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2004.

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• I have a great office.

  R. L. Stine

  Great Office

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, Loss, Boss

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• No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.

  Scott Stapp

  Mistake, Soon Enough, Tabloids

  "No Charges for Scott Stapp's Public Drunkenness at Airport". www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2006.

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• I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Beautiful, Children, Skeletons

  "Stellan Skarsgård: 'I'm a castrated bull'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  Ted Strickland

  Country, Jobs, Pride

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

  Andrew Tobias

  Jobs, War, America

  "Doonesbury on Job Creation" by Andrew Tobias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2012.

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• I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

  Jim Talent

  President, Able, Capacity

  "Talent Positioning for Rematch Against McCaskill" by Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Afterlife, Forever

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

  Charles M. Vest

  Believe, Government, Leader

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• I never worked in an office in my life.

  Jack Vance

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• L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

  Dylan Walsh

  New York, Important, Culture

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