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“When I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), I had been trained to instruct the workers to take the company supplied drugs to do their jobs.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Drugs Telescope Abusers Trained

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), I was aware of long term summit workers that were showing signs of irritability and aggressive behaviors. Similar problems began to show up in me a few years after I started working there.”

Behavior Astronomy Osha Altitude Aggressive Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Irritability

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the management team were always saying that everyone was part of the ohana (family). When I got sick and needed essential surgery, they outcast me from the ohana. I concluded that the company ohana was a sham.”

Family Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Keck Ohana

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.”

“When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.”

House Belief White White House Colleagues

Author:Mike McCurry

“When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference.”

Presses Entertainment Tonight Conferences Press Conferences Emcee

Author:Nina Blackwood

“When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.”

Firsts Running Next Pay Practice Office Dollars Congress Medical Next Day Retired Public Office

Author:Phil Roe

“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as they discharged it into the indoor environment at high altitude.”

“When I worked in astronomy, the management teams would mislead the staff about the biological toxicity of harmful things that the staff would be routinely exposed to.”

Management Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Toxicity Teams

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in Florida in 2009, Babcock Ranch was just a design idea.”

Design Florida Idea Solar Just When Worked 2009 Ranch Babcock

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I had no idea how dangerous the management teams were.”

Work Team Dangerous Management Safety Astronomy Osha Altitude Idea High

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I was never screened annually by a doctor that was expert in low level radiation sickness (LLRS) and high altitude disease (HAD).”

Disease Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Doctor

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona at the much lower altitude of 6,875 feet. Due to my very high altitude experiences, I knew that this strange sickness was not primarily caused by altitude sickness and was most likely Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). After reporting various behavioral problems in all of the staff to the management team, my contract was not renewed, I was unable to legally protect the health and safety of the workers that I was responsible for, troubleshooting of this environmental problem stopped and I left in a sickened state for my next position before I could find the root cause.”

“When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.”

Important Hard Happens Interesting News Woods Los Angeles Covering Unimportant

Author:Charles Kuralt

“When I worked in professional high and very high altitude astronomy, I was completely clueless to what the long term biological hazards of the job were!”

Astronomy Long Term Job Hazards Professional Clueless Biological Worked High Altitude Completely

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in the utility electrical industry, I was surrounded by scalawags.”

Law Health Industry Safety Osha Utility Electrical Worked Surrounded Scalawags

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.”

Wells Made House President White Progress Taxes Reform White House Comprehensive Carter Tax Reform President Carter

Author:David Rubenstein

“When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.”

People Way Writing Given Theater Notes Screens Posts Continuing Desks Post It Notes

Author:Maureen Johnson

“When I worked in those offices, it was just irritating to me that somebody sat there and designed this place, never thinking that you would walk from here to there, and they didn't care. The one guy designs it, gives it to the other guy, he looks at it; no one thinks about all the people that gotta walk through it. So I think the best way to show those banal moments is to be just flat and wide.”

People Thinking Giving Moments Care Guy Design Office Sat Other Guys Irritating

Author:Mike Judge

“When I worked in USA professional astronomy it was understaffed, we could not keep up with maintenance tasks, salaried employees were working extremely long unpaid hours, the telescopes were in extreme environments, and there were some shady health and safety issues.”

Osha Telescopes Health And Safety Professional Astronomy Keep Up Understaffed Extreme Environments Long Unpaid Hours Maintenance Tasks Salaried Employees

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.”

Wanted Fun Lines Boys Four Directors Stealing Mess Having Fun Altars

Author:Kieran Culkin

“When I worked on an erotic shoot... I shot digitally. It helped the models get into it because they could come over and see what was happening. It was the closest to being sexual, because it was a participatory experience.”

Models Happenings Shots Closest Erotic

Author:Rankin

“When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.”

Ifs Mind Ends Hard Enough Wanted Motivation Games Goal Inspiring Happened Achieve Focused Reasonable Manageable

Author:Michael Jordan

“When I worked on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea we were advised to only use the medical oxygen after the daily headaches appeared and that just 15 minutes use was all that was needed to clear up the headaches for a while before we would need it again. We were not advised to use medical oxygen continuously as the Federal Aviation Regulations advises pilots to do. We were not advised to use pulse oximeters to monitor our blood oxygen levels or that the company medical oxygen should have been routinely administered only with our doctors prescription.”

Source: Health Forensics

“When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.”

Thinking Imagination Theory Guides Experiments Realms Phenomenon Intuitive Vaccines Polio Polio Vaccine

Author:Jonas Salk

“When I worked the day shift at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, a registered nurse came to visit and commented that my breathing during sleep was irregular. I had no idea what altitude induced central sleep apnea was at that time and ignored the comment. Many years later I was diagnosed with a variety of sleep disorders.”

Sleep Astronomy Altitude Disorder Mauna Kea Hawaii Observatory Apnea Central

Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays in your head a little bit.”

Littles Names Bits Understanding Little Bit Woody

Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“When I worked with Chevy Chase, Michael Ritchie would say, "Just ad lib and try to break me up. Just insult me. Anything." When we were doing his close-up, or when my back was to the camera, I would come up with jokes or quips or anything, to get a real reaction out of him. He was smart enough to know that was gold. So it was great fun working with him and Michael, and getting to see how the two worked together. I think Fletch and Clark Griswold were Chevy's two best roles. He's so incredibly talented and still vastly underused.”

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Author:Tim Matheson

“When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.”

Knows World Wells War Development Computer Musician Machines Treated Cards War Of The Worlds Electric Second World War Great Music Great Musician General Electric

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“When I worked with Gianni Versace at the end of his life, I was the person with whom he would confide and say anything. If there was something I didn't like, I would be honest and say, "No, no, no! Do something different."”

Different Honest Being Honest Say Anything Versace

Author:Donatella Versace

“When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.”

Needs Years Lying Focus Plans Months Six Deceit Nuts Six Months Jamie Plan B True Lies

Author:Eliza Dushku

“When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.”

Thinking Five Scene Six Riot Robins Improvising

Author:Stephen Root

“When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who was controlling what was going on in the life of the "outer" person, who thinks he's in control of his life. That inner person has a vested interest in keeping the person from getting well, so the healing doesn't take place.”

Thinking Wells Kind Persons Interest Healing Various Healer Get Well Vested Interests

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.”

Tree Humility Eighty Wildlife

Author:James Balog

“When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.”

Knows Able Together Remember Watches Pieces Happened Percent Scripts Excited Narrative Woody

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“When I workout early in the morning, the rest of the day feels so much better.”

Feels Motivational Morning Workout Bodybuilding

Author:Robert Cheeke

“When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. And I think that does change a lot our sense of what is going on in our neighborhoods.”

Thinking Worry Privacy Neighborhood Cell Phone

Author:Jonathan Zittrain

“When I worry about the birds, I am also worrying about watching all my possible selves go extinct. And when I worry that no one will see the value of these murky waters, it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mysteries, and my own depths.”

Loss Identity Vulnerability Extinction Environmentalism Inner Life Selfhood Connection To Nature

Author:Jenny Odell

Source: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.”

Heart My Heart Worship Christian Worship

Author:Lamar Boschman

Source: Authentic: Exploring the Mysteries of Real Worship

“When I would arrive home after a day working at high altitude, I would be extremely fatigued and would collapse in a chair until bedtime. I would wake up feeling hung over.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Feeling Tmt Collapse Hung Bedtime Over Fatigued

Author:Steven Magee

“When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.”

Enough

Author:Eliza Griswold

“When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.”

Men Needs Bigs Would Be Hours Fulfilling Monkeys Be A Man Egotistical Megalomaniacs

Author:Jerry Lewis

“When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.”

Stories Would Be Running Sound Goal Happened Stage Singing Describing

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.”

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Author:Gene Kelly

“When I would feel down...I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day...Poof! They would all disappear.”

Feels Father Worry Drama Prepared Disappear Noodles

Author:Kim Young-kwang

“When I would get close on a part but wouldn't get it, I would be like, "They made a mistake," which is not how I think about things now. I both admire it and I'm grateful for the modicum of health, knowledge, and humility that I have acquired over the last 10 or 15 years.”

Thinking Years Made Would Be Lasts Mistake Humility Grateful Admire Made A Mistake

Author:Zoe Kazan

“When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.”

Feels Kind Eye Realizing My Own Stage Goes On

Author:Jenny Slate

“When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.”

People Thinking Sometimes Walking Normal Towns British London Norm Unkind

Author:Ewan McGregor

“When I would later ask her, What makes someone beautiful?, she would tell me: 'I think it’s what’s inside someone. I think it’s kindness in someone’s heart that makes them beautiful.' And she would add, 'And it’s how they treat others.' Compassion is beauty, too.”

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Author:Ashley Asti

Source: Up: A Love Letter to the Down Syndrome Community

“When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.”

Persons I Can Loses Beats Blame

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

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