Jobs Quotes - Page 36

• I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

  Kristen Bell

  Character, Years, Lucky

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• That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

  Kurtis Blow

  People, Inspire, Violent

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• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  Laura Benanti

  Dad, Thinking, Issues

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• It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

  Laura Bush

  Running, Heart, President

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2004.

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• CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Hate, Enemy, Quality

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• It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Stars, Zuckerberg, Apples

  "What Can Zuckerberg Learn From Steve Jobs?" by Marcus Buckingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2012.

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• I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Successful, People, Literature

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• While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Data, News, Useless

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• My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

  Mario Batali

  Kids, Three, Pasta

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• In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

  Melissa Bean

  Community, Growth, Facts

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• When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

  Melvin Burgess

  Teacher, Zoos, Children

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• There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Pride, Years, Imagine

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• Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

  Paul Bettany

  Seconds, Five

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• I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

  Rick Baker

  Growing Up, Teenager, Real

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• It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

  Rick Baker

  Successful, People, Done

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• I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

  Rob Bishop

  Believe, Hard Work, Way

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• As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Small Jobs, Undergraduate, Illustrators

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• I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Appreciate, Important

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

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• If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

  Samantha Bee

  New York, If I Could, Ifs

  "Daily Show's Samantha Bee salutes Canadian roots". Interview with Andrew Ryan, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 14, 2011.

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• When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.

  Saskia de Brauw

  Beautiful, Girl, Careers

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• Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

  Shelley Berkley

  Doe, Investing, Construction

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• I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, 'When am I going to wear that?', so it's my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Girl, Stars, Thinking

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• The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

  Spencer Bachus

  Construction Industry, Growth, Cash

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• The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

  Tim Bishop

  People, Suffering, Plight

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• There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

  Tim Bishop

  Loss, Courses, Recessions

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