#days

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week. ↗

— Tony Shalhoub

#big #big family #boss #built #business

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#bit #celebrity #course #days #different

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#better #days #i #our time #reading

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#advice #also #appalled #give #holidays

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#large number #means #merely #nowadays #number

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend. ↗

— William Whipple

#attend #barely #been #besides #business

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. ↗

— Roger Wilkins

#black #black community #blacks #certain #community

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth. ↗

— Dave Willis

#cds #couple #days #drop #go

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#away #because #before #days #did

I consider seeing my 30th birthday an accomplishment. You know, not many midgets live to be this tall.
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— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #birthdays #funny #height #humor