Jobs Quotes - Page 31

• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  Jenny Eclair

  Cat, Vision, Age

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

  Tim Cahill

  Adventure, Sprung Up, Years

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• Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message.

  Jim Kern

  Children, Messages, Helping

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• The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

  Tyne Daly

  Years, Car, Next

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

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• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  I. F. Stone

  Giving, Computer

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• Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Danger, Dangerous, Persons

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• For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Baby, Moving, Home

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• I never could get a proper job.

  Tibor Fischer

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• I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

  Albert Brooks

  Acting, Impossible, Middle

  "Albert Brooks Says He Knows His ‘Drive’ Character’s Entire Backstory" by Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Unpredictable Things, People, Trying

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.7, Delacorte Press

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• Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

  Sean William Scott

  Grateful, Actors, Way

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• Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

  John Major

  Dollars, Pounds, Invention

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

  Jon Lovitz

  Years, Clubs, Firsts

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• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

  Kevin Nealon

  Unique, Grew Up, Description

  "A Minute With: Kevin Nealon returning to stand-up comedy". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. August 1, 2012.

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• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  Nancy Reagan

  Husband, President, Firsts

  "The 'just say no' first lady". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. February 18, 2004.

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• Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Joy, Pleasure

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• I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

  Hume Cronyn

  Littles, Unhealthy, Knows

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• You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

  John Larroquette

  Important, Needs, Going To Work

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.

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• My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

  Brett Favre

  Leader

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• My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  "Rosie O'Donnell: 'My Job Is to Be Funny'" by Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 29, 2011.

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• I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

  John Sayles

  Needs, Investing, Way

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• I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

  Lauren Holly

  Husband, Moving, Chicago

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• My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Medicine, Research, Alive

  "The Nights and Days Of Elizabeth Edwards". Interview with Monica Langley, www.wsj.com. July 21, 2007.

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• My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

  Mare Winningham

  Vocation, Mothering, Suitable

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• And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

  Nolan Ryan

  Children, Blessed, Play

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