B. D. Wong

As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

American Actor

Larry Speakes

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

American Public Servant

George Clooney

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

Dwight Yoakam

m really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

American Musician

Kari Skogland

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the true creative spirit.

Claire Messud

Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

American Novelist

Octavia E. Butler

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

American Writer

Ken Berry

I spent every summer as a child at my uncle's farm in Illinois so I know all about gathering eggs and how the hens will peck at you.

Wayne Shorter

I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order.

Peter Hook

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.

English Musician

Used to describe a small, friendly kiss without romantic implication.

Affectionate Gesture

Commonly used to indicate a quick kiss goodbye.

Casual Farewell

It's not usually used to describe passionate or long kisses.

Not Romantic

Refers to a specific quantity, mostly for solid, dry ingredients.

Volume Measurement

It's an old unit of measure not commonly used today, except in specific contexts.

Old-Fashioned Unit

Describes gentle actions, often by birds, not necessarily damaging.

Light Pecking

Pecking can refer to small repetitive actions, not always with a beak.

Caution with Usage

Implies eating in small amounts or not showing much interest in food.

Eating Lightly

May indicate a lack of appetite or desire to eat.

Suggest Disinterest

 to simple pecks on the cheek either. An intentional ambiguity was often used as a cheeky means to proposition marriage or a more intimate relationship. Therefore, instead of viewing Shakespearean works as out-dated, boring, and unhelpful, start reading today and discover the best ways to get the one you love

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 if you just randomly assign rewards such that there is no pattern, they will figure out any kind of pattern. And whatever they were doing just before they got the reward, they repeat that particular pattern. Sometimes it was even spinning around twice counterclockwise, once clockwise and peck the key twice.

The pattern behind...

 so you'll get that I don't peck at a computer and imagine all day, so you'll hear me when I say that I understand that a dream job is not about dreaming. It's all job, all work, all reality, all blood, all sweat, no tears. I work a lot, very hard, and I love it. When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it,

My year of saying yes to...

 and then all of that has to operate within the biggest system, and, I would argue, the most important, the ecosystem. And you see, the choices that we make as an individual, but the choices that we make in every single job that we have, no matter how high or low you are in the pecking order,

Leyla Acaroglu: Paper...

 didn't want the ones that were at the bottom of the pecking order we kind of one of those in the middle hoping to have the assumption that they would be um chill because we had a bunch a flock horse trained to adopt these horses with the help of two professional trainers

Why Four Cowboys Rode...

 They'd pecked the rest to death. The individually productive chickens had only achieved their success by suppressing the productivity of the rest. Now, as I've gone around the world talking about this and telling this story in all sorts of organizations and companies,

Margaret Heffernan: Why...

 about four years of schooling. And he asked that particular person, what do crows and fish have in common? And the fellow said, "Absolutely nothing. You know, I can eat a fish. I can't eat a crow. A crow can peck at a fish.

Why our IQ levels are...

 be respectful we were always on the edge of the colonies it's almost impossible to get inside them and i don't think you really want because the spaces between the nests are so small you're bound to get pecked and you're

The Dirty Side Of...

 and we all do them for you oh poor babies again so and they said what's not your turn I've been waiting over 200 years you've had your peck

On sincere and authentic...

 it comes to a food find like this pecking order is strictly observed the biggest bird gets the booty