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Definition of Resume

Resume

A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

To take back.

To enter upon, or take up again.

To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

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Resume Quotations

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins

I want to resume the life of a shy person.
Garrison Keillor

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
Loretta Young

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
Linus Torvalds

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
George Steiner

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
Jenny Shipley

I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.
Roy Moore

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
Mitch Daniels

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason Cooley

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.
Kathleen Turner

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.
Joe Pantoliano

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Pam Grier

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
Bob Ney

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
Colleen Haskell

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.
Don Cheadle

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
Lawrence Hargrave

In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
Edward Everett

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.
David Cone

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.
Jason Marsden

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
Famke Janssen

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.
Richard Grasso

I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
Jeff Daniels

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
Greg Akcelrod

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.
Sean Young

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
Frederick William Borden

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Resume Translations

resum� in Afrikaans is oorsig
resume in French is resume, reprendent, reprends, reprenez, reprenons
resume in German is wiedererlangen, fortsetzen
resume in Latin is recolo, resumo (resumpsi; resumptum), recolo
resume in Spanish is reanudar

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