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I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk. -- John E. Jones III
My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk. -- Reem Acra
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library. -- David Morrissey
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? -- Rahm Emanuel
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. -- Calvin Coolidge
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces. -- Louise Nurding
We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace. -- Lisa Gansky
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk. -- Steve Berry
In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested. -- Ricardo Semler
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I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling. -- Rick Boucher
Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that? -- Caroline Paul
I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days. -- Ramon Rodriguez
This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!' -- Jane Pauley
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk. -- Margaret Mahy
For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.' -- Rich Sommer
When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.' -- Maggie Stiefvater
In the office, Michael sat behind our father's desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak. -- Rachel Vincent
Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don't have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room. -- Ingvar Kamprad

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