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I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats. -- Jerry Nachman
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while. -- Tom Wilson
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. -- Jimmy Reid
My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream. -- Vidya Balan
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone. -- Eknath Easwaran
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Only a rat can win a rat race. -- Michael Franti
I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric! -- John Cleese
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! -- Bette Davis
Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat. -- Linda Ellerbee
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat. -- Mike Tyson
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown. -- Van Morrison
I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality. -- Donald Freed
I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do. -- Paul Smoker
A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat. -- Kurt Voss
Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction. -- June Goodfield
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now. -- Eddie Murphy
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine. -- Paul Gruchow
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race. -- Johann Lamont
It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel. -- Graydon Carter
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. -- Jimmy Reid
In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work. -- J. D. Souther
Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us. -- Shari Arison
I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life. -- Sonam Kapoor
TV is the rat race of the century. -- Groucho Marx
My place, your place, slapped face, rat race. -- Roger Daltrey
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race." -- Johann Lamont
You can win the rat race but you're still a rat. -- Banksy
Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. -- Aman Jassal
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People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat. -- Paul Palmer
One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir. -- Bob Dylan
We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it. -- Adriano Bulla
They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes. -- Bob Dylan
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat. -- Richard Koch
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Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. -- Gene Perret
Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it. -- Dewitt Jones
I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form. -- Erin Fall Haskell
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. -- Margaret Halsey
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. -- Anna Quindlen
It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge." -- Lykke Li
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat. -- Carolyn Heilbrun

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