Job Quotes
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Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.
Kurt Loder
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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
Jim Harrison
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My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
James Meade
Kutless
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Marshall McLuhan
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To make the people happy, to forget their problems. Then, to me, I'm doing my job. But to act is a God gift.
Kumar Pallana
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I was one of these people, especially early in my career, who balanced the equation too much in favor of my job; I spent most of my life focusing on that. But becoming a dad gave me back perspective; it brought balance into my life.
Matt Lauer
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The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.
Amiri Baraka
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I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
Alice McDermott
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I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.
Chelsea Peretti
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There's no doubt that they've been a real surprise. This team has amazing camaraderie. They play together; they've done a phenomenal job.
Dick Vitale
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There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
Bill James
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The job of dedicated missile boats is to pootle about, like mice in carpet slippers, waiting for an order to destroy an entire continent.
Jeremy Clarkson
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Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
Charles Williams
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A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
Zac Brown Band
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Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation.
Colin Kaepernick
