Job Quotes
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Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, 'My God, I was so different at the start of this job.' I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.
Eleanor Tomlinson
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The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your whole job is to either say 'yes' or 'no' and explain why.
Mark Kirk
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As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
Allan Carl Newman
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It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
Lord Mountbatten
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We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
Angus Deaton
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I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.
Don Rickles
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People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Armand Hammer
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I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Elinor Lipman
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I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
Bobby Cox
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I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.
Brian Schmidt
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Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
Jeremy Piven
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It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.
Danny Meyer
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My dad's job was to manage apartment complexes, so when people would move out or when people would die or whatever, people left things in their apartments, he would always bring me home people's collection of music that they left behind. I was excited because I didn't really have money to go to the CD store all the time.
Kali Uchis
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I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
Adria Arjona
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It's awesome that my job is to make people have reactions.
Ashton Sanders
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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
Elizabeth George
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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Stamina. There is a greater physical element to this job than you would think, just being able to grind it out. And I think your ability to not just mentally and emotionally, but physically be able to say, "We got this. We're going to be OK."
Barack Obama
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I think playing a comic role is the toughest job for an actor; to put glycerin and cry is easy, but to make people laugh is difficult.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
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I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.
John le Carre
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It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.
Christie Brinkley
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The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.
Stephen F. Lynch
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God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.
J. I. Packer