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• ...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

  John Yudkin

  Dark, People, Choices

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• Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Finding The One, Self, Training

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• The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

  Mark Bernstein

  Journey, Narrative, Internet

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• Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

  Kendrick Meek

  Florida, Dollars, Port

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• I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, Responsibility, People

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• The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

  Tina Thompson

  Community, Dollars, Benefits

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• What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

  Peter Hain

  Judging, Records, Judge Me

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• We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

  Pete Stark

  Long, Office, President

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• Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

  Duane G. Carey

  Space

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• I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

  Willa Ford

  Writing, Mean, People

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• The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Community, African American, Louisiana

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• There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

  Tony Blair

  Team, Iraq, People

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• If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.

  Dan Miller

  Identity, Vulnerable, Ifs

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.48, Crown Business

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

  Herbert Hoover

  Fall, Science, Comfort

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• They do a heck of a job with the PGA professionals around the country and taking care of the clubs and country clubs and everything else, but when it comes to understanding the guys out here on Tour and everything else, I don't think they get it because they're not out here on a regular basis.

  Billy Horschel

  Country, Golf, Thinking

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• You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

  Jimmy Breslin

  Baseball, Morning, Team

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• Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Government, People

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• 'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

  Beth Ditto

  Party, Kids, Hair

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• My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Dare, Shocking

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• This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Summer, Rocks, Play

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• I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

  David Torn

  Funny, Inspiring, Hate

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• I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

  Matthew McConaughey

  Meaningful, Thinking, Vacation

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• Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Equal Pay, Qualified, Paid

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• A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

  Daniel Craig

  Men, Equal Pay, Two

  "James Bond video for international women's day shows 007's feminine side" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

  Joe Manchin

  Believe, High Heels, Virginia

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