A Quote by Anna Quindlen
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.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.
You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.
Only a rat can win a rat race.
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.
People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.
The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.
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.
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.
They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.
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.
I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?
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