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• My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

  Jet Li

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses.

  NeNe Leakes

  Real, Gay, Atlanta

  "EXCLUSIVE: NeNe Leakes on 'The New Normal,' Gay Rights and Her 'Glam-Baby'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Children, Birth Control, Cost

  "Is There Really A War on Women or Are Men Just Being Stupid?" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Morley put his hand over his heart and bowed from the waist, a gesture that somehow reminded Claire of Myrnin. It reminded her she missed him, too, which was just wrong. She should not be missing Morganville, or anyone in it. Especially not the crazy boss vampire who’d put fang marks in her neck that would never, ever go away. She was doomed to high-necked shirts because of him. But she did miss him.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Heart, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.147, Penguin

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• They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.

  Markus Zusak

  Jobs, War, Views

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.309, RH Childrens Books

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  World, Able, Used

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• Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

  Mindy Kaling

  Hey, Four, Safe

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• There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Forgiving, Sin, Deny

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• I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

  Rachel Zoe

  Voice, Freak, Tough

  "Rachel Zoe" by Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. July 10, 2009.

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• It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

  Candace Bushnell

  Perfect Parents, Hands, Play

  "Young Anacostia Teacher Built a Family of Admirers" by Joe Holley, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2005.

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• I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Pain, Rain

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  Donald Miller

  Monday, Couple, Mean

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

  Naomie Harris

  Want, Humans

  "My first boss: Naomie Harris". Interview with Tola Awogbamiye, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2003.

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• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Ernst Fischer

  Media, Mind, Film And Television

  Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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• I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dad, Team, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  May, Judgment, Bigs

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Common Folk, Democracy

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

  Kirk Douglas

  Needs, Actors, Way

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• It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mistake, Empowering, Way

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• ...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).

  Barack Obama

  Mother, School, Islands

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• It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Heart, Fighting, Games

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Littles, Little Things, Harder

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• If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

  Peter Watts

  Brain, Dilbert, Conscious

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.555, Head of Zeus

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• Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.

  Bob Dylan

  Baby, Frost, Lovers

  Song: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

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