Real Jobs Quotes - Page 5

• To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Leadership, Education, Wisdom

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• There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

  Hans Zimmer

  Jobs, Real, School

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. You know, sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So yeah, I've never had like a normal job.

  Seth Rogen

  Jobs, Real, Bucks

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until my mid twenties. From all I had heard from other people, art was just something you do as a hobby in between your real work and real jobs.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, Jobs, Real

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Real, Hard Work

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.41, New York Review of Books

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• I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

  Mike Patton

  Jobs, Real, People

  Interview with Gus Mastrapa, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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  One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

  Kenny Chesney

  Jobs, Growing Up, Real

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• One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

  Will Ferrell

  Jobs, Growing Up, Memories

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• The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Jobs, Real, Mind

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• ...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

  Joanne Harris

  Money, Jobs, Work

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• My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.

  Freddy Adu

  Jobs, Real, Play

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• When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

  Kevin Harrington

  Jobs, Real, Young Entrepreneurs

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• I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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