Day Jobs Quotes - Page 2

• I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Jobs, Ebay, Hobbies

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

  Al Roker

  Jobs, Giving Up, Blow

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• When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

  Carol Leifer

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Dream, Jobs, Acting

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• As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

  Black Francis

  Jobs, Real, Artist

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• I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

  Jim C. Hines

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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• I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

  Robert Bateman

  Teacher, Art, Jobs

  "Robert Batemen: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. December 15, 2012.

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• People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.

  Tony Robbins

  Jobs, Giving Up, People

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

  Mike Royer

  Jobs, Credit, Months

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

  Ken Thompson

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In the 19th century, most research was done by amateurs: either individuals who were rich or individuals who had a day job. In the 20th century, most researchers worked at universities or think tanks and received money from the government or from foundations to pursue their work. In our time, the sources of support and the locations for research may be quite different.

  Howard Gardner

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Jobs, Acting, Passionate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

  Travis Morrison

  Jobs, Guitar, Play

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I had two passions when I was a child. First was to learn about Einstein's theory and help to complete his dream of a unified theory of everything. That's my day job. I work in something called string theory. I'm one of the founders of the subject. We hope to complete Einstein's dream of a theory of everything.

  Michio Kaku

  Dream, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

  Tom Scharpling

  Jobs, Writing, Television

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I won't quit my day job. I like restaurants. I don't do a lot of television, either, even though people come to me with projects all the time. I have to spend time in the kitchen.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Jobs, People, Kitchen

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Writing, Wife

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up diving in too deep, quitting their day job too soon. They move to Vegas or wherever, make an all-or-nothing commitment before they're ready, and burn out.

  Phil Ivey

  Jobs, Moving, Commitment

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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• I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do so much non- organic for a living for other artists, it's just a break for me, for my ears and it confuses people that think my music is supposed to sound like the stuff I do for my day job, but that's just people that don't know me.

  Butch Walker

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.soundscapemagazine.com

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• I recommend everyone who DJs to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJs in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.

  Armin van Buuren

  Jobs, Mean, School

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• Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.

  Billy Eichner

  Jobs, Struggle, Successful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Friday, Monday, Jobs

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• I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.

  Sarah Baker

  Jobs, Differences, Tvs

  "The Good Lie Actress Sarah Baker Talks Acting, Movies, and Working with Reese Witherspoon". Quora Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

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• A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

  John Darnielle

  Jobs, Trying, Serious

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• In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

  J.B. Pritzker

  Wise, Jobs, Long

  "Only Kids Can Fix This Economy" by J. B. Pritzker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2010.

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