“The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling drama in their lives that they used to get from the office and the factory, and they're no longer there. What happens if you have everything in the hands of the state, particularly in the line of an authoritarian state, they just give people drugs to keep them doped up, to keep them passive.” PeopleIfsGivingStatesHandsHappensUsedLinesDealsDramaDrugOfficeIncomeFactoriesCompellingPassive Author:Irvine Welsh
“I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.” GivingWarLanguageOfficeImpressionVery Clever Author:Tony Benn
“The biggest myth about fatherhood that you get given a direct phone number to talk to Santa and tell him how your kid has been behaving. Absolute bullshit. I got an email address and it's just giving me an out of office reply.” GivingKidsOfficeDirectMythBullshitFatherhood Author:Chris Ramsey
“The only advice that I know to give is to pray for your leaders. Whether you like it or not, we have a new president. As a church body, we need to remember these leaders, whether they are in office or not. Leaders in the workplace or the church, we need to remember them because they face some really hard decisions. So we need to pray for wisdom and peace and understanding and for patience, and for any and everything really because they're going to need it. So let's just gather around them and pray that God's will be done on earth, versus someone's agenda.” GivingDoneEarthRememberUnderstandingPresidentChurchDecisionLeaderAdvicePrayingOfficeWorkplaceYou Like ItPraying For You Author:Colton Dixon
“Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, "They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something." It's actually sometimes a really good thing. I don't have time to second-guess myself, I don't have time to overthink things, and I don't have time to get bogged down in stuff. I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.” ThinkingGivingSometimesPresidentWeekOfficeGood ThingsNervous Author:Billy Campbell
“Finally, I was called for "The Office" and I was really lucky, because a lot of the shows that I went out for I would work my way up from, like, an audition with the casting director to the director to the producers to the studio, I'd go through seven auditions, and then they'd give the role to a famous actress.” GivingLuckyOfficeSevenProducersMy Way Author:Jenna Fischer
“With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I went in and I got the role.” ThinkingGivingBreakOffice Author:Jenna Fischer
“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.” PeopleThinkingGivingMomentsCareGuyDesignOfficeSatOther GuysIrritating Author:Mike Judge
“The Peña Nieto government is not going to investigate itself; there's no true autonomy in the investigative and justice branches of the government in Mexico. The recent Mexican crimes and scandals, is profoundly structural, and you'd have to change the way Mexico is run, create a truly independent special prosecutor's office, to even have a chance to get close to achieving justice. People, including the families and many others throughout Mexican society, aren't going to give up in fighting for just that kind of change.” PeopleGivingKindRunningFightingJusticeChanceAchieveSpecialCrimeOfficeGiving UpIndependentAutonomyMexican Author:Francisco Goldman
“I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingTryingLooksI CanHardFacesGivenLevelsOfficeRadioBoxesAppealsHere I AmBox Office Author:John C. Reilly
“You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.” KnowsGivingMeanDecisionAdviceEasierOfficeToughComing Out Author:Tony Blair