#pent

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#background #crimes #experience #financial #found

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life. ↗

— Anthony Perkins

#adventure #aids #competitive #did #ever

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. ↗

— Anne Perry

#before #born #both #couple #england

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#asking #asking questions #been #i #ken

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#figure #i #now #over #spent

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. ↗

— George Raft

#foolishly #gambling #i #million #part

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ↗

— Simon Raven

#class #common #common man #early #faring

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#corps #country #defend #i #i love

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advertising #amount #improving #money #products

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad. ↗

— Devon Sawa

#high #high school #i #like #most