Mike Rowe Quotes
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Women just love to shop.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Shimrod said: 'Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.'Melancthe smiled a cool smile. 'And now?''The child seems to have wandered away.'
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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
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I have two young sons that are very interested and work in real estate. I made it a policy they need to work five years in progressively responsible jobs outside of the company, preferably in New York, and then get a masters degree, so I am making it hard for them to join.
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There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
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Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
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Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.
