Ladders Quotes - Page 3

• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  Mae West

  Funny, Success, Girl

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

  Wally Schirra

  Pilots, Tests, Steps

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• We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

  Robert Mugabe

  Pride, Backwards, Feels

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• I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

  Hugh Jackman

  Moving, Son, Gay

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• I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

  Fatboy Slim

  Technology, Shoes, Tables

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Climbing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  Wade Boggs

  Moving On, Sports, Baseball

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• One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

  Michael Andretti

  Stronger, Drivers, One Thing

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• It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Hard Work, Climbing

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Democracy, Speech

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• And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

  "The Empire of Business".

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• I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

  Andrew Bogut

  Cat, Two, Black

  "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.

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• A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

  Rachel Maddow

  Luck, Pockets, Walks

  "A Pundit in the Country". Interview with Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2008.

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  The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  People, Tree, Needs

  "British guns blazing as EU summit opens" by Andrew Rettman, euobserver.com. June 21, 2007.

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• I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Dad, Past, Koalas

  "'I believe in celebrating the female figure' says a very hot, very naked Miranda Kerr" by Caroline Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

  George Eliot

  Hiking, Hatred, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Business, Brad

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• Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Littles

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• He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

  Walter Scott

  Firsts, Climbs, Rounds

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.50

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• I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

  Herman Cain

  Kings, Moving, Careers

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• The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

  Havelock Ellis

  Math, Science, Humans

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Thinking, People, House

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• I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

  Zola Jesus

  Thinking, People, Goth

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