Satchel Paige Quotes
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
Paige VanZant -
That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
I. F. Stone -
People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
Carl Paladino -
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
Irvine Welsh -
This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
Ilie Nastase -
Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.
Dan Gilbert -
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale -
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
Nancy Gibbs -
There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
Dalton McGuinty
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
Zubin Mehta -
It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
Zac Hanson Hanson -
Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
Karan Mahajan -
For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.
Harriet Harman -
I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
Ned Beauman -
In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.
Emily Mortimer
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And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.
Dave Winfield -
If your job was remotely interesting, there would be a show on A&E about it.
Aziz Ansari -
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
Fernando Pessoa -
I love Paul Rudd.
Adam McKay -
I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.
Jesse Plemons -
I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige