All Quotes

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
‐‐ Johann Sebastian Bach

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
‐‐ Charles Van Doren

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.
‐‐ Saul David

I worked hard at whatever task I was given and embraced leadership opportunities, whether as a crossing guard, an altar boy, or a general.
‐‐ Martin Dempsey

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
‐‐ Joe Theismann

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
‐‐ Lionel Hampton

I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

I worked hard to complete my medal collection.
‐‐ Nino Schurter

I worked hard to get stronger and better, and I'm really happy and satisfied.
‐‐ Nino Schurter

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
‐‐ Per Petterson

I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.
‐‐ Elie Tahari

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
‐‐ Jamie Lawson

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
‐‐ J. Cole

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.
‐‐ Jamie Sives

I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
‐‐ S. Robson Walton

I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
‐‐ Sidney Sheldon

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
‐‐ Graeme Simsion

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

I worked in IT, which is all boys, and I was the queen of the boys. That's what I did. I was the one who knew where the paper towels were, which was very important. And I organized happy hours and things like that.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.
‐‐ Gary Calamar

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.
‐‐ Pearl Cleage

I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food.
‐‐ Keeley Hawes

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
‐‐ Lauren Oliver

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
‐‐ Imelda Staunton

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
‐‐ Tom Riley

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
‐‐ Madhur Mittal

I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.
‐‐ Joanne Liu

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.
‐‐ Viola Davis

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.
‐‐ Lena Headey

I worked in the Clinton administration.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.
‐‐ Diego Della Valle

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

I worked in the Mossad for a few years.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
‐‐ David Hockney

I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.
‐‐ Angus King

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
‐‐ Dan Scanlon

I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet.
‐‐ Nicolle Wallace

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.
‐‐ Jenn Proske

I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the '60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y'know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.
‐‐ Alex Rocco

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'
‐‐ Elizabeth Vargas

I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.
‐‐ Joe Piscopo

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia