Unemployed Quotes - Page 2

• If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

  Henry Ford

  America, Unemployment, Want

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• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Privilege, Income

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.

  Neal Stephenson

  Morning, Sunday, Night

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.21, Spectra

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• A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Men, Doe

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.753, Best Books on

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• Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

  Chuck Knox

  Sports, Conservative, Common

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• Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Elderly, People

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• I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

  Toby Young

  Order, Pay, Mortgage

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• I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

  Mark Gatiss

  Swim, Awful, Leisure

  "What I see in the mirror: Mark Gatiss" by Mark Gatiss, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teenager, Ghetto, Self Confidence

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• If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Winter, Promise, Would Be

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• Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

  Marguerite Duras

  Men, Differences, Waiting

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• There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

  Frances McDormand

  Two, Acting, Matter

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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• A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Political, Body

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• I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Land, Ideas

  "What Drives George Clooney". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

  Adam Brody

  Fun, Different, Actors

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• There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Cities, Kansas City

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• An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.

  Auberon Waugh

  Eton, Soap, Bent

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

  Myla Goldberg

  Morning, Nice, Home

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• The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

  Michael O'Leary

  Years, Europe, Influential Person

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• President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Beer, Construction Workers

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• We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

  Os Guinness

  May

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• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  Nathan Fillion

  Giving, Pay, Foxes

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• I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Years, Two, Three

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

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• If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wisdom, Jobs, Yes You Can

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• It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

  Hunter Tylo

  Scary, Actresses

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