“The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on The Big C has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so shes warned me what to expect.” Has BeensHelpingBigsKidsActorsCareersHundredMajorityZero Author:Gabriel Basso
“Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.” ThreeWinningCareersFiveHundredSeventies Author:Ralph Kiner
“I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.” HomeRunningThreeSoundCareersHundredStoresGladNineNinetyLike SomethingHome RunDiscountsNinety Nine Author:Dave Winfield
“They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.” PersonsStillsWholeGivenNumbersCareersChangedHundred Author:Lou Whitaker
“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!” WorldNeedsGivingSportsLosesChanceHalfCareersWonderfulDramaHundredShoesChampionRepeatsInterviewsDestroyingFifteenLapGraciousWorld ChampionsJenny Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.” FirstsWellsBookSelfFeelingsDealsCareersDoubtPagesHundredOvercomingNew BooksSelf-doubt Author:Dean Koontz
“Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.” MenWayTryingYearsWellsMadeStillsSelfStatesSeemsGovernmentPoliticalCultureRaceMoralCareersIssuesHonestFiguresHeroPoliticianEssentialsElementsHundredRaisesFiftyOur SocietyAmerican HistoryFederal GovernmentFrontiersAmerican CultureIconicAmerican LifeSelf MadeAbeSelf Made Man Author:Eric Foner
“Acting is a bit like being an athlete. You spend all your time getting ready to do something for two minutes. All the things that made my career in the movies happen took two or three minutes, which is the time that it takes for a 'take'. In that time, something happens. That's what people know you for, just like someone running the hundred metres.” PeopleKnowsMadeTwoHappensRunningThreeBitsActingCareersMinutesReadyHundredAthlete Author:Christopher Walken