A Quote by Kurt Voss

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

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Kurt Voss
Born: September 15, 1963

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.

Tamzin Merchant

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Richard Koch

People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

Paul Palmer

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

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

Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

Terrell Owens

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

Linda Ellerbee

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

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

Maynard James Keenan

Only a rat can win a rat race.

Michael Franti

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

Banksy

Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

Maria V. Snyder

The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.

Nuseir Yassin

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?