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When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the u... JOHN WAYNE I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I...
WOODY NORRIS When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
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RAYMOND DAVIS, JR.
For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. B... EDDIE REDMAYNE I was there in 1959. That was a long time ago.
EDDIE EINHORN
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist. EDMUND WHITE
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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire. MARIANNE FAITHFULL
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PER PETTERSON
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social con... BEN STEIN
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust. ROSEANNE BARR
Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' Th... BERNIE SANDERS
I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school. ALEK WEK
If I hadn't continued working for a university, I might not think about it every day. LINDA GRAY
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University....
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SIDNEY ALTMAN
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. MOHSIN HAMID After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a ve...
VERNON L. SMITH That was a great year (1959) for the White Sox, but a tough loss in the World Series,
AL LOPEZ As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics ...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the ...
CARLA BLEY Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
MARTIN NIEMOLLER
I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkans... GENNIFER FLOWERS
I was in a three-year program. I left after two years to work, but I can't say enough about how wond... DAVID NAUGHTON When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an a...
JOHN KATZMAN
I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwr... JOHN KRASINSKI I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade&...
MAMIE GUMMER
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception o... LUDWIG VON MISES I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived...
LYNN DAVIES
I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carol... VIRGINIA POSTREL
Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After... AKIRA SUZUKI
I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, ... STEVEN BIKO
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred sl... KARL LIEBKNECHT
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After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas... NIGEL HAMILTON I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education be...
SARAH ZETTEL I thought about how disappointed I was. I would admit that after that race I was broken in half. It ...
AARON DOBSON
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learn... PETER ACKROYD
My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along t... MARIO ANDRETTI
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DANIEL WU I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the ...
CARLA BLEY I really wanted to talk about what the public's perceptions are and, for me, as a researcher, I felt...
CYNTHIA COHEN
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city'... JACK MA
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how... ALAN GREENSPAN I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
WAYNE NEWTON I didn't have anything left in my body to use as fuel. I just felt dead. I had no energy after that....
ANDY RODDICK
The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records afte... GRAHAM NASH I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a phot...
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MICHAEL HASTINGS I told him that I thought this was a magnificent recruiting effort for my program as well as the uni...
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Throughout my life and career, I have continually been impressed with the importance of integrity - ... REX TILLERSON
If you rely on a more conventional understanding of the term 'left-wing' as being associated... TERRY GLAVIN Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a sale...
HERB RITTS
When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was ... REBA MCENTIRE I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, f...
AAGE BOHR I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in...
CARLY STEEL
I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged ... JOHN LEWIS After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, 'Masquerade,' where I played a rabbit. I was the l...
ROGER REES
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern... DALLAS WILLARD I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
SALLY SCHNEIDER
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th... KEVIN SPACEY Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the ga...
MANTI TE'O After my wife's death I was totally devastated and hardly left the house for 2 1/2 years.
GERALD PRUITT After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which w...
PASTOR MALDONADO
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortu... KAREN FINERMAN
I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder...
JAMES P. HOFFA My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and al...
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a publi... VICTOR MITCHELL I am really looking forward to working with the new manager and his team. Stephen's record and reput...
BOBBY ROBSON To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
ANITA SHREVE Stephen goes to school here now and teachers always tell me what a good boy Stephen is. I used to al...
BILL TYLER Being a freshman is hard, because freshmen usually don't play. Then I had to step up after our leadi...
CATHERINE YANCY I think it was a safety concern for him and the university.
GLEN BACHMAN I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to...
JACK STEINBERGER I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni...
NANCY ROMAN First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
PETER FINCH I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
AMARTYA SEN The reason I agreed to go to Indonesia because at one time it was a socialist country for one year-t...
ROBERT JENKINS
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner... 
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have of it. 
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We accept the love we think we deserve. 
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