- Friend
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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.
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- Enrolled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Man cave' seems retrograde, but 'she shed' seems progressive. Or maybe it's just a place for me to eat embarrassing amounts of chocolate in private.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020