Dirty Jobs Quotes

• People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Motivation, Dirty

  "Are People With 'Dirty Jobs' The Most Successful?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• Not all knowledge comes from college.

  Mike Rowe

  College

  "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

  Mike Rowe

  Dirty, Honor, Looks

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Dirty, Men

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• If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Kids, Order

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• You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

  Mike Rowe

  Smart, Long, People

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

  Mike Rowe

  Years, Ideas, Wish

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

  Mike Rowe

  Mother, Dad, Broken

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

  Darynda Jones

  Jobs, Dirty, Perfection

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.201, St. Martin's Press

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• The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Dirty, Different

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• It's a dirty job being ridiculous, but I'll do it

  Cher

  Jobs, Dirty, Ridiculous

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• While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Mother, Jobs

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• The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a short dress. Yeah, it was a dirty job, but I was going to do it. Come one, come all, bloodsuckers! Bar’s open!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Jobs, Dirty, Cat

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• My father announced early on that he didn't want his sons to be "country club bums." And for a number of reasons, I bore the brunt of that - I have an older brother and two younger brothers. So he had me work in all my spare time. I started out picking dandelions, shoveling stalls, milking cows, building a fence - whatever dirty job was out there. That's a big deal, because you learn things working that you don't learn in school.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you've got a dirty job, the best way is to help each other and then you'll create this culture of mutual benefit. And then you've got to understand who your customer is and create value for them and so on.

  Charles Koch

  Jobs, Dirty, Mutual Benefit

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.

  Dov Davidoff

  Jobs, Work, Dirty

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• I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

  Klaus Nomi

  Jobs, Dirty, Boys

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• The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Dirty, Woven

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• It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Real, Dirty

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