I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Shimon Peres

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.
Esther Dyson

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
Anatoly Chubais

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
Klaus Fuchs

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
Elia Kazan

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
Tony Curtis

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
Fritz Sauckel

I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.
Don Johnson

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
Ken Curtis

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!
Marc Davis

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.
Chad Smith

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
Isaac Rosenberg

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.
James Rollins

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
Lindsey Buckingham

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
David Dinkins

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
Richard O'Brien

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith