Jobs Quotes - Page 33

• I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

  Chuck Jones

  Pay, Wanted, Stills

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

  Martina Hingis

  Kids, Play, Tennis

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• You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

  Anthony Anderson

  Opportunity, Rapper, Ice

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

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• Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

  George Clooney

  Captains, Ships, Directors

  "Again, with 20% more existential grief". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

  Sara Blakely

  Manage, Full Time Jobs, Our Lives

  "The New American Couple". Article by Lea Goldman, www.marieclaire.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Decision, Way, Makers

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• I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Stress, People, Heartfelt

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• We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

  Julian Baggini

  Opportunity, Priorities, Suffering

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Summer, School, Thinking

  "Get To Know Giada". Interview with Alice Park, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Entrepreneur, Doe

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• I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Pay, Nine, Way

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• I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Mother, Children, Home

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• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  Jay Baruchel

  Would Be, Canada, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

  Chandra Wilson

  Children, Years, People

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

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• More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.

  Todd Akin

  Mean, Government, Taxes

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• There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Wind, Oil, Sun

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Law, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Hair, Best Job, Wife

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• It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

  Emily Procter

  Ideas, Bad Ideas, I Can

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

  James Iha

  Player, Guitar, People

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• When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

  Jessica Savitch

  Long, Literature, Losing

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

  Jerry Orbach

  Next, Wonder

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• The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Important, Might

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• I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Eye, Long, Noses

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