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My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
When a new manager comes in, you need to show him what you can do, but that may mean waiting for your opportunity.
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.
Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.
I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.
You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.
We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.
Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.
Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.
It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.
Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.
God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?
Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.
Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.
I've always been a guy that doesn't do well waiting for people to say, "You can act." It's always been a part of me.
The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!
Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.
On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch so it is not worthwhile to wait for the World Cup.
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.
Courage isn’t a feeling that you wait for. Courage is doing when you don’t have courage. Courage is doing it scared.
I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.
We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.
I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.
I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?
I've discovered that every time I've reached a milestone I think I'm there, but there's another there waiting for me.
I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.