Quotes on the topic: Serving


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A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.


If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.


Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to our society - by excelling in school, by volunteering in their communities, or by serving in the military.


Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.


I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.


I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.


The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.


Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.


Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.


It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.


With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.


So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.


Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.


I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.


For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.


At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.


Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.


I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.


We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.


I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.