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“As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.”

Feels Years Book Past Majors Sitting Guilty Former Ducks Shelves Dickens English Major Bronte

Author:Garrison Keillor

“As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.”

I Can Past Science Language Quality Buddhism Structure Ridiculous Former Professors Grammar Symbolic Adjectives Differentiation Qualitative Pronouns Symbolic Meaning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character.”

Character Opportunity Performances Clinton Welcome Former Prosecutor Hillary Rodham Clinton

Author:Chris Christie

“As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.”

Body Pain Used Stuff Player Football Percent Dancing Your Body Former Injury Ache Trust Me Football Player Ballroom Ailments Ballroom Dancing Aches And Pains

Author:Emmitt Smith

“As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.”

“As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.”

Knows Children Important Whole School Can Do Community Teacher Benefits High School Our Children Important Things Investing Former School Teachers High School Teachers

Author:Ed Pastor

“As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.”

Way Ideas Today Pain Republican Standards Tasks Compromise Former My Way Ads Bully Highways Romney Lifelong Billionaire Indebted Allergic

Author:Charlie Crist

“As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.”

Knows Use Government Decision Land Locals Former Mayors Local Government Land Use

Author:Elton Gallegly

“As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.”

President Team Economic Months Members Spots Former President Obama Legislation Stimulus Inauguration

Author:Christina Romer

“As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of my body. Bulletproof has many practical principles and tips on how, as men, we can thrive and not just survive as we get older. This is a must read.”

Men Play Body Care Quality Principles Fields Direct Athlete Practicals Former Nfl Thrive Correlation Bulletproof

Author:Devon McDonald

“As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.”

Believe I Believe Quality Drug Essentials Patient Medical Former Treatment Prescriptions Medicare Advocating High Quality Prescription Drugs Medical Treatment Modernization

Author:Sue Kelly

“As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.”

Names Speak Term Groups Republican Former Moderates Mislead

Author:Lincoln Chafee

“As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.”

Thinking States United United States Defense Former Secretary

Author:Dick Cheney

“As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.”

Trying Important Ends Play Faces Universe Challenges Roles Economy Former Owners Broads Small Business Business Owners Small Business Owners

Author:Sue Kelly

“As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.”

Knows Mother Quality Teacher Importance Former Grandmother Quality Education Mother And Grandmother

Author:Sue Kelly

“As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.”

States Might Law President Easier Integrity Vote Election Obvious Strikes Commit Former Reform Voters Fraud Secretary Notable Attorney Ohio President Reagan Voter Id

Author:Edwin Meese

“As a formerly disabled person that was denied my earned disability benefits, I do object to massive amounts of money going into foreign countries when the government could not give me a tiny disability allowance when I was too sick to work!”

Government Tiny Denied Foreign Countries Object Too Sick To Work Disability Allowance Earned Disability Benefits Formerly Disabled Person Massive Amounts Of Money

Author:Steven Magee

“As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.”

Knows Feels Firsts Dream Winning Race Desperate Drivers Formulas Formula One

Author:Sergio Perez

“As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.”

Actors Stuck Maturity Plateaus

Author:Julian Sands

“As a founder or a CEO, you have a unique opportunity—and responsibility—to set the values for your organization.”

Leadership Integrity Authenticity Leadership Development Business Leadership Leadership Integrity Authentic Leadership

Author:Sabrina Horn

Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success

“As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?”

Found Company Team Why Not Founders Start The Day

Author:Ron Conway

“As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?”

Years Book Mother Four Calling Newspapers Australia Climbing Four Years Fence Jumping Johnson Flew Aeroplanes 1930s Amy Jumping Off

Author:Nancy Bird Walton

“As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.”

Constitution Peers Defenders Madison Framers

Author:Garry Wills

“As a fraud researcher, it is wise to trust no one.”

Believe Truth Wise Trust Lies Corruption Illegal Fraud Criminal Researcher

Author:Steven Magee

“As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.”

Ifs Persons Dying Ought

Author:John Stossel

“As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.”

Subjects Wine Various Magazines Experts Life Span Veterinarian

Author:John Hodgman

“As a freelancer, you’re not a cog in the (corporate) machine. You’re the gear, pinion, axis, and whatever other doohickey it takes for the entire mechanism to function. And the gearhead who designs and makes it all work.”

Corporations Small Business Cog In The Machine Freelancing Work At Home Be Your Own Boss Work For Yourself Freelancing For Beginners

Author:Rodika Tollefson

Source: The Freelancer’s Compass: Navigate Your Way from Corporate Cog to Solopreneur Star

“As a freshman at Miami I started of as a reliever for the first few games and quickly moved into the rotation as the Saturday started for conference play. That year was very successful, I was name a Freshman All-American as well as 2nd Team All-MAC.”

Years Firsts Wells Play Games Names Successful Team Moved Saturday Conferences Macs Miami Freshman Rotation

Author:Graham Taylor

“As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.”

Class Practice Psychology Focus Meditation Trouble Students College Anxiety India Ancient Handle Asia Fellowship Harvard Adjusting Freshman Meditation Practice Grad

Author:Daniel Goleman

“As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately, whether evil might exist. If it does, I've been thinking, it might be like what Freud called the navel of the dream, the place where all the lines of meaning the analyst has so carefully traced through the patient's life vanish into the unknown. But where the navel of the dream is essentially harmless phenomenon, a point where the dream's meaning is sufficiently understood, and further interpretation would be pointless, evil is a mystery with power. It reaches up into the world and makes everything mysterious.”

Dream Evil Freudian

Author:Paul La Farge

Source: The Night Ocean

“As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You know how these media narratives are. They're like bamboo." Meaning, once they start growing, you can't kill them.”

Knows Said Know How Growing Media Paper Majors Newspapers Tendencies Narrative Bamboo

Author:George Weigel

“As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'”

People Littles Hours Company Mines Strange Meaningful Imaginary Exclusive Most Meaningful

Author:Lawrence Block

Source: Telling Lies for fun and Profit

“As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.”

Giving Trying Firsts Understanding Friendship True Friendship

Author:Robert Breault

“As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.”

Writing Stills I Can Sometimes Friendly Concrete

Author:Ian Hamilton Finlay

“As a fruit has its own tenure to ripe, so does your inner consciousness. Absorbing the divine grace is more tasteful than any pleasures on Earth.”

God Heaven

Author:Vishal Chipkar

Source: Enter Heaven

“As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls outside the scope of "normal" human experience.”

Humans Real Seems Fall Sides Serious Normal Phenomenon Human Experience Scope Ufo Investigators

Author:Peter Davenport

“As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.”

Faces Social Easy Media Information Internet Behavior Function Crisis Social Media Access Thanks Brands Consumers Ease Multiple Access To Information Easy Access

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.”

Should Looks Church Gone Taught College Bible Ads Apostles Rail Fundamentalist

Author:Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

“As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.”

Want Guy Goal Known Future Goals

Author:Erick Green

“As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Matter Shows Reality Games Fun Bits Opinion Little Bit Host Totality Game Shows

Author:Michael Ian Black

“As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.”

Ifs Matter Speak Wonder Flower Exercise Judgment Gardener Good Judgment

Author:Robert Breault

“As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.”

Believe Has Beens Existence Evidence Garden Gardening Gardener Gardening And God Planting A Garden Evidence Of God

Author:Robert Breault

“As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.”

White Courage Groups Gay Who You Are South Minorities South Africa Be Who You Are Minority Groups

Author:Antony Sher

“As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children”

Children Parent Loses Gay Russia My Children Gay Parents

Author:Masha Gessen

“As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just a narcissist," "You're just a gay man," "You're just looking for yourself in somebody else," "Why does your boyfriend look like you," a kind of baggage that you already have to create in the face of.”

Men Writing Kind Like You Gay Get Away Narcissist Gay Men Your Boyfriend

Author:Douglas A. Martin

“As a Gen-Xer I had gotten used to abuse. That had to change. As I walked around, I rearranged my life and formulated a secret battle plan. Setting boundaries would upset those who benefited from me not having those. I had to develop what I wanted my future to be. To dream. Then only allow those who shared that vision into my life. This plan was one of the best things I ever did for myself.”

Inspirational Quotes Gen X

Author:Nobo (Not A Hobo)

Source: Homeless On Purpose: Boston 1997

“As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.”

“As a genealogist, I have seen the Big Picture as very few have. Most people now living have no clue who they are or where they come from. We are all descended from the ancient kings of our various cultures. There is nothing unique about it. And let's be honest, most of those kings were pretty ruthless individuals. What's important for us today is that we wake up to the fact that we are all literally cousins. How would our world change if we honored that relationship and started treating one another as family?”

Family Relationship Royalty Ancestry Descendants Big Picture Genealogy

Author:Laurence Overmire

Source: The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland

“As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."”

Funny Games Half Baseball Comment

Author:Yogi Berra

“As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.”

Helping Bathroom Guidelines

Author:Robert Breault

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