Eric Benet Quotes

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Job
  • Want
  • Nice

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Job

• My job is simply to be myself, to be Ayumi Hamasaki.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Job

• I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Time
  • Job

• What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

  

  Mary Barra
  • Life
  • Job
  • Rest

• I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

  

  Loretta Reynolds
  • She
  • Job
  • Marine

• No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

  

  Franklin Knight Lane
  • Job
  • Political

• There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Job
  • Soul
  • Song

• Our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wind, water and sun by the year 2030 - we can do it; this is an emergency, and we must do it - but to use that as an opportunity to put America back to work, to renew our infrastructure, and to basically assure that everyone has a job.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Work
  • Job
  • America

• When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Job
  • Age
  • Pretty

• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Thinking
  • Job

• The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Character
  • Book
  • Kids

• One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Pride

• I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Father

• Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Job
  • Parent
  • Blessing