#entered

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#course #enter #entered #environment #factory

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#bill #bill gates #billions #college #companies

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting. ↗

— Demi Moore

#background #career #connection #entered #having

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#any #centered #focused #force #harming

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. ↗

— Michael Graves

#around #been #centered #dialogue #idea

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#age #become #century #complex #defenseless

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#been #constituency #entered #i #now

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#everybody #gutter #i #little #punk

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#background #ballet #because #body #centered