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- Nov 07, 2020
Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.
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- Nov 07, 2020
William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.
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- Nov 07, 2020
LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't seen 'Room' yet. People tell me 'Room' is such an amazing film, but ever since I had a kid, I just can't. I can't do it. It's not fun. It's not a place I want to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020