Real Jobs Quotes - Page 4

• Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

  John Sununu

  Jobs, Growing Up, Real

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• I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Real, Track

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• I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

  Daphne Guinness

  Jobs, Real, Ideas

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• I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

  Vivian Campbell

  Jobs, Real, School

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• My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

  Ken Spillman

  Jobs, Real, Writing

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• If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Real, Serious Person

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• I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Real, College

  "Mary-Chapin Carpenter: Country's Unlikely Star" by Eliza Wing, www.rollingstone.com. March 21, 1991.

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• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  Hannibal Buress

  Jobs, Real, Half

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

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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

  Jobs, Growing Up, Teenager

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• Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Real, Technology

  "Dem Congressman: Obama's Budget A 'Nervous Breakdown On Paper'". Real Clear Politics Video, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

  Howie Carr

  Jobs, Real, Should Have

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• I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

  Monica Ali

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

  Hamish Linklater

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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

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• For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Real

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Jobs, Real, Work

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• Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Real, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.161, Penguin

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• Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Real, Lying

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• Your real job in this world is to be you.

  India.Arie

  Jobs, Real, World

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• The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Real, Titles

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• Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Horse, Jobs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

  James Denton

  Jobs, Real, Air

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

  Jeremy Irvine

  Jobs, Real, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Real, Want

  Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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• I heard this today and I thought this was fascinating and interesting. President Bush has two daughters, two beautiful daughters, and they may work on their father's presidential campaign after they get out of college and I thought, well, that's a pretty good move because in this economy, they won't be able to find real jobs.

  David Letterman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Jobs

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