Jobs Quotes - Page 20

• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

  Joseph Kanon

  New York, Firsts, England

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• My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

  Beau Willimon

  Men, Campaigns, Totems

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• Alzheimer's is a family disease...It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers...Wi thout professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself.

  Seth Rogen

  Kids, Alzheimer's, Care

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• To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Strong, Pain, Boys

  Charles Edward Montague (1922). “Disenchantment”

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• For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

  John Frusciante

  Needs, Mood, Chores

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• A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.

  Ken Dryden

  Team, Player, Order

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• You can take this job and shove it because I quit.

  Jim Ross

  Wwe, Quitting, I Quit

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• Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Government, Social

  Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Charles Clarke (1990). “Out of this world: science fiction and fantasy”

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• As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

  Marian Keyes

  Fear, Believe, Men

  "Anybody Out There". Book by Marian Keyes, February 8, 2007.

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• These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

  Greg Mankiw

  Teenager, School, Adults

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• The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

  Norm Coleman

  Dumb, Way, Dangerous

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• I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get.

  Keith Ellison

  Mcdonalds, People, Political

  "Pols back #FastFoodStrikes" by Jose Delreal, www.politico.com. December 05, 2013.

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• I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Rep. Paul Ryan: “He underplayed the enormity of the task before us, which is to confront a debt crisis”, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Labor Force, Salary, Minimum Wage

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• I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Thinking, Dumb

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Men, Games

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

  Walter Isaacson

  Mind, Afternoon, Matter

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.

  Chelsea Clinton

  "Chelsea Clinton On Her Wall Street Job: ‘I Didn’t Get Any Meaning From It" By Harry Bradford, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

  Gary Neville

  Player, Agents, Good Job

  "Gary Neville hits out at 'mollycoddled' modern players", www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2009.

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• Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

  Jay Inslee

  Technology, Investing, Century

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• I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.

  Scott McClellan

  President, United States, Done

  "McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

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• You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.

  Petra Collins

  Girl, Careers, Waiting

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• If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

  Eli Roth

  Home, Blood, Fake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Philosophical, Cutting, Dragons

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• I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That's not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It's not needed. I'm already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.

  Shani Davis

  Athlete, Who I Am, Ego

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