Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
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At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.
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My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
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It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
