"My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each"

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Source : "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

David Plotz

#Mother Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Father Quotes

“Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272
“If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honor all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.”
“Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.”
“In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixedâ€”in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.”
“Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!”
“In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.”
“Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.”
“Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.”

Source : "‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner ‘Lucky’ to Have Worked With the Late Frank Pierson in WGAW Statement About His Passing" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 23, 2012.

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