Oscar Wilde Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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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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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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Any job is wonderful.
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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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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
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Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
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My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.
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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
