In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.
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Related The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play ca... ADAM DRIVER I thought we did a good job guarding them. The only place where we lacked in the first half was on t... BILL FOY Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time t... BEN SHAHN I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump [Wrigley Field] all the time. BABE RUTH Jason Baker did a great job. I mean, that's a tough kid. He was more aggressive and offensive on his... BOB FREUND I think he regrets what occurred but felt he was justified in his actions based on Mr. Tomlinson bei... LISA BOURCIER I gave the midfielders a rollicking at half time for not getting forward and three out of the four w... GORDON DALZIEL I guess probably what I remember most is just before he went to Iraq, he was here, his final Sunday ... DAVID LARSON The bottom line is that I believe that Mr. Maher was putting his own interests before the good of th... ANN REUTER When I walked in the locker room (before the game) ... I could tell he was focused. He just went out... MARCO KILLINGSWORTH I was a little concerned about that coming in and he might have been wondering what he was running o... COREY LANERIE I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work. RUSH LIMBAUGH I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was j... TIESTO I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Ange... ANNA NICOLE SMITH I went up to him after the game and told him I think he did a great job on me, his teammates did a g... ACIE LAW Getting in the nurse anesthesia program was harder than getting a job. I had applied the year before... DAVE BREITENFELD When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Hu... GEORGE LOIS I tell you what he did, he went out and found Joey Martin all summer. We went to every tournament he... BRYAN MCCARTY I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I was surprised by that. I thought he did a real good job for us. And he had been in a pennant race ... MARK LORETTA I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Th... PATRICK DEMPSEY I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in th... ELIJAH KELLEY It's a relatively low starting salary, about half of what I have been making. But I believe with my ... JOANNE JOHNSON I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do... ROBERT MATSUI It's almost a snapshot in time, ... This crewman, whoever he turns out to be, he's somebody who went... BOB MANN Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace ... LENA HORNE I was happy for Ben Rhoda getting his 1,000th point tonight and the way he got the put back which ba... MURRY BARTOW Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,'... BEN LLOYD-HUGHES I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them bef... SID BERNSTEIN [Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera... FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F... FLOYD ABRAMS I don't think we did a great job of getting the ball to Derrick in the first half. So, if he wanted ... BRENT DECKERT Tonight I saw Jesus with the eyes on my face. He looks half lion and half man. But not more like a l... C. JOYBELL C. Ron did a good job. If he hadn't left, he would be working for us today. I don't know what his motiv... ALAN BURTON I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested... ED O'NEILL I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. , "HARVEST," 1906 I am really proud of the job the girls did in the second half; we talked at halftime about BILL DUFFY When, some months later, Zoltan emailed me about his decision to run for president, I immediately ca... MARK O'CONNELL I submerged myself in his life. Before I went to sleep at night, that's what I was watching. The... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I actually once sat at the back of a payroll class in America - just me and 40 women! And I'm si... DAVID PERRY I thought Peter Brown give us a nice life in the first half and I thought Ben really answered the be... DICK HUNSAKER I'm feeling good. I've been getting ready for this. I was on the ice until last March and I was on t... DOMINIK HASEK So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar... TORI AMOS I think he validated what he did the race before. I had the impression that he wanted to run on turf... DARRELL VIENNA As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising ... APOLO OHNO I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was prett... CHARLES KURALT The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequent... FARNAZ FASSIHI It's a possible 14-point swing and, for sure, a 10-point swing, ... Greg Davis did a really great jo... MACK BROWN That score right before the half was big for them. They went in at half with the momentum. JOHN CLARK He came over after World War II. He was in Germany learning from engineers when he was 16 years old.... ANDREW KLENERT The game did slow down a bit. We came out strong in the first half, and then fell back in the second... BILL GIEBELL At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at... DAVID CRYSTAL Royce (Rowe) did an unbelievable job guarding him on that play. He went for the first fake, had to g... BRIAN VOYLES I started on television. I had five years of network television before I ever got up on a stage. The... ALBERT BROOKS He was one of the guys ... there was this perfect communication with him. When I heard he was gettin... BOB GOLIC I knew Josh was on the black line, and when (the official) called that, I knew right away what he wa... GREG SOLIZ The thing that I don't get about these serial killers is he went to work - he worked every day - and... DELMA COLLINS Cassie?” It’s Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he’s feeling the Ben thing a little more ... RICK YANCEY My payroll record says I started in 1952, when I was 12. But I was working in the business before th... GARY MACHABEE The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself ... KATE MOSS Ben kept us in it in the first half. He was really on fire, ... We controlled the second half, but w... BRYAN DAVIS When Ben took the job to go up to Cleveland, one of the first things I did was I gave Nate a call, ROBERT MASSEY I don't know what my dad went through. My parents never talked to us about his time on the police de... FRANCES ROBERTS It was just a situation that presented itself when I was in his neighborhood and at his home, and I ... BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at W... JAMES BOVARD At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben G... MICHAEL BURRY I'm very excited about getting Ben. I don't know what I'll say when I see him. Having Ben here ... i... JANICE LAWSON I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to wor... KATHERINE JOHNSON I think Paul did just a wonderful job coaching his team this year. Strategy-wise, I thought Paul did... LANCE MARIFKE Early in his career, he was looked at more as a singer/songwriter, ... As time went on, he was viewe... RICK RUBIN You dreaded asking him about his vacation because he would talk to you for an hour about what he did... PAMELA DIXON I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gi... JOHN FRANKENHEIMER By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what ... CAROL LOOMIS That was his debut. I know he called a time out at one point just to call a time out. He just wanted... JODI MANORE I want to thank Mr. Edwards for his time in the negotiations. BILL UTTLEY And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all: The last ti... JOHN GREEN [In the weeks before the taping, Brown did not study because he was unsure of the topics that he wou... COLIN BROWN I never lost four like that. Last year, before this game, I lost my defensive coordinator. He went t... GLEN MASON I went to have dinner at their house before I even heard about the movie. We were in their living ro... JOAQUIN PHOENIX I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend o... CHARLIE DANIELS I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend o... CHARLIE DANIELS I did think about the injury a little bit before the jump but generally speaking I think I did a goo... ZHAO HONGBO I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should ha... STEVEN ERIKSON I'd seen him on the Internet and knew he was sixth in the state, I knew his name. I went out and did... COREY TAYLOR You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a... REGIS PHILBIN Fitz's door was closed, so she knocked before going in. "I told you, Mr. Snuggles's visiting ho... SHANNON MESSENGER Coach Zaleski taught me a lot my first year in Louisville, ... I knew the game but from a coaching s... TOMMY JOHNSON I'm not going to muck up his win, ... I'm not going to even entertain that there was an unfair advan... DIEGO CORRALES We wanted to try to go through him in a half-court set because he puts a lot of pressure on the defe... BILL FOTI He lived his way, and it didn't in any way encumber anyone around him, ... I never envied it, becaus... JERRY LEWIS I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption ... FRANK ABAGNALE Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager c... GEORGETTE HEYER In the first half, we had a few bad shots. I wasn't in the flow of the game offensively. Coach (Sean... BRIAN THORNTON The game plan was not for A.J. to get two fouls in the first three minutes. Jeremy did a good job ca... MARK SCHMIDT Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKn... FRED FUNK I didn't have as much influence as everyone thinks. Brandon's success is a product of Bobby Freund. ... PAT CONNORS I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minut... ADAM RAPP Our goal was to limit what Ben (Hansbrough) did. He's one of the best players in the state, and he c... CODY GREEN I communicated with him regularly on e-mail. He was always upbeat about the war and believed in what... BOB MARIANO I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing.... VANESSA BAYER
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BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the... BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci... BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see... BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar. BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics... BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while. BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His... BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ... BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r... BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s... BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t... BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ... BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi... BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o... BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs. BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a... BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ... BEN AFFLECK The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ... BEN SHAPIRO I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ... BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter. BEN PLATT 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou... BEN SHAPIRO If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would... BEN GOLDACRE We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for... BEN CARSON I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni... BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho... 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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies. BEN JONSON A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues. BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone. BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding. BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' BEN FOUNTAIN To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be... BEN OKRI With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a... BEN PARR The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce... BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g... BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ... BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
... BEN JONSON Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ... BEN HECHT Economics is not brain surgery. BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination. BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas... BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa... BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination. BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives. BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you. BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. BEN KINGSLEY I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with... BEN HECHT People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic... BEN HECHT I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony. BEN HECHT In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro... BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety BEN HECHT Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo... BEN HECHT Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. BEN HECHT Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. BEN HECHT Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the... BEN HECHT There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t... BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil. BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot BEN STEIN If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him. BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
... BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin. BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine. BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work... BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver. BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha... BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h... BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest. BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free. BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give. BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg... BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru... BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri... BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one. BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born. BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance. BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t... BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes... BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par... BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life... BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to... BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none. BEN JONSON As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. BEN HOGAN I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte... BEN HECHT Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors... BEN HECHT Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w... BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. BEN BAYOL The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th... BEN ELTON Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it... BEN STEIN People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ... BEN ELTON