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  • And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain. -- Lloyd Alexander
  • No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper! -- Lloyd Alexander
  • Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach. -- Adam Oates
  • Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. -- Thomas Perez
  • In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939. -- Arthur Lewis
  • The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department. -- Paul D. Boyer
  • Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League. -- Allard K. Lowenstein
  • State Department lawyers need to have the evidence to back up the charge before they make it. Here's Nebraska Republican Jeff Fortenberry questioning Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson at a House. -- Tom Gjelten
  • Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant. -- Milan Kundera
  • FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. -- Stuart Symington
  • Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart. -- Lloyd Alexander
  • My first real kiss was actually on the set of 'The Vampire's Assistant' with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation! -- Chris Massoglia
  • In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized. -- John Frankenheimer
  • When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss. -- Brad Goreski
  • I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them. -- Nikki Sixx
  • I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers. -- Dennis Quaid
  • As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. -- Francois Englert
  • Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. -- Leslie Cockburn
  • I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. -- Roz Chast
  • Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. -- Bella Abzug
  • Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant. -- Hjalmar Schacht
  • Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room. -- Criss Angel
  • I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned. -- Mark Wahlberg
  • Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades. -- Jimmy Johnson
  • I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it. -- Glenn Ford
  • An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. -- Jeremy Irons
  • A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.' -- Tommy Cooper
  • I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy. -- Paul Johnson
  • It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?' -- Zoey Deutch
  • I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day. -- Joseph Mawle
  • I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple. -- Frank Quattrone
  • My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. -- Morag Joss
  • My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' -- Sean Parker
  • I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon. -- Ronda Rousey
  • I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross. -- Fergie
  • When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant. -- Olivia Newton-John
  • The physician is only nature's assistant. -- Galen
  • I call myself the assistant cult leader. -- Charlie Munger
  • A manager is an assistant to his men. -- Thomas J. Watson
  • My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon." -- Harrison Ford
  • If you don't have an assistant, you are one! -- Cameron Herold
  • Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big. -- Brad Bird
  • I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show. -- Trishelle Cannatella
  • Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach -- Tommy Amaker
  • Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon -- Raekwon
  • My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. -- Lou Holtz
  • I donâ??t believe that your phone should be an assistant, -- Andy Rubin
  • Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials. -- Steve Scully
  • I don't know what my assistant would do besides get me pot. -- Zach Galifianakis
  • So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies. -- John Frankenheimer
  • I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life. -- Megan Gallagher
  • People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one. -- David Karp
  • I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant. -- Taraji P. Henson
  • A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? -- Jodi Picoult
  • A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it. -- Kenny Cunningham
  • Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval. -- Lloyd Grove
  • Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character. -- Woody Hayes
  • The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House. -- Betty Hill
  • Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game. -- Neil Patrick Harris
  • Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone? -- Jim Valvano
  • I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant. -- Mark Messier
  • I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning. -- Brendan Daly
  • If you want to drop off the face of the earth, just be an assistant coach. -- Bob Griese
  • Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna! -- Anne Robinson
  • I tell my assistant "I'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother me" -- Scott Borchetta
  • I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein. -- Rachel Caine
  • I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun. -- Dean Smith
  • If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me. -- Patricia Velasquez
  • She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. -- Nancy B. Brewer
  • When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant. -- Mike Lookinland
  • Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself? -- Darrin Patrick
  • Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. -- Jean Cocteau
  • I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. -- Star Jones
  • I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. -- Gene Simmons
  • I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant. -- Shirley MacLaine
  • The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. -- Anna Chlumsky
  • The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. -- John Frankenheimer
  • You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches. -- Tony DiCicco
  • The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. -- Billy Bob Thornton
  • And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game. -- Don Shula
  • I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager. -- Brian Blessed
  • Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant. -- Tony Greig
  • I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. -- John Boorman
  • I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong. -- Patrick Ewing
  • I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though. -- Cheryl Hines
  • Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. -- Henry Fuseli
  • I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. -- Gene Simmons
  • My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant. -- Susana Martinez
  • I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.' -- Don Meyer
  • I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech. -- Stephan James
  • I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal. -- Saoirse Ronan
  • Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. -- Laurence J. Peter
  • a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff -- Jennifer Egan
  • So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didnâ??t complain. It was normal. -- Bernhard Langer
  • Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college. -- Chris Carmack
  • You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big. -- Marcelo Claure
  • In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you. -- Andy Rooney
  • I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in. -- Louie Anderson
  • I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. -- Jane Fonda
  • In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health. -- Dalai Lama
  • Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair? -- Susan RoAne
  • My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana. -- Theodore Kaczynski
  • I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with. -- Sandra Bullock
  • My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant. -- Craig Thompson
  • I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage. -- Angela Kinsey
  • Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience. -- Gary Reilly
  • I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it! -- John Francis Daley
  • I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. -- Richard Donner
  • I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that. -- Kirsten Dunst
  • I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring. -- Alexander Wang
  • Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton. -- Bryan Cogman
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