#of

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#coffee #great #last #smoking

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. ↗

— James Rouse

#legitimate #need #people #product #profit

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting #courage #honesty #humble #humility

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. ↗

— Bernie Sanders

#below #child #current #federal #full-time

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too. ↗

— Kerem Mermutlu

#teen #young-adult-fiction #age

Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique experience, but there's a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. ↗

— Chbosky

#coming-of-age #life #the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower #age

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#book #hair #hate #i #into

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#know #life #often #people #real

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers. ↗

— Tina Fey

#politics #professionalism #prostitution #virtues #dreams

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#first #front #glass #hand #how