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• I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Negative, Odd

  "Harry Shearer: The Voices in My Head". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Numbers, People, Challenges

  "Women at Work: Biocon Founder on Philanthropy, Sexism and Politics". Interview with Atish Patel, blogs.wsj.com. June 18, 2013.

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• Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

  Seth Godin

  People, Giving, Expectations

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.

  Eddie Cochran

  Baby, Work, Son

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• If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

  Warren Farrell

  Female, Like Her, Employee

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

  Todd Rundgren

  Work, Pounds, Sticks

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• The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.

  Austin O'Malley

  Government, People, American Government

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• People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

  Rutger Hauer

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

  Julian Baggini

  Emotional, Expression, Example

  "Calm? Why should I be calm?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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• If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Real, Home, House

  "Bankruptcy? Tougher Than Counseling a Soprano" by Geraldine Fabrikant, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2006.

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• I am the boss of me. You can't change anyone else. Women think they can. But you know what? You can't.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Thinking, Can't Change, Knows

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• It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

  Suzy Welch

  Jobs, Rose, Done

  "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.

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• No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Men

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• When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

  Jim Brown

  Stars, Two, Directors

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• What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Effort, Around The World, Emergencies

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• My boss seems to think that my hair is gonna fall off & go into the ice cream. This hair ain't movin' my dude. 150mph on the highway on a street bike it doesn't move! What makes you think it's gonna move in a gelato shop?

  Pauly D

  Moving, Fall, Thinking

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• A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

  Alan Beck

  Dream, Hope, Art

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• Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

  Jack Welch

  Skills, Careers, Make Or Break

  "Jack Welch on the one skill that can make or break your career" by Jack Welch, www.businessinsider.com. July 16, 2015.

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• I have no boss but my conscience.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Conscience

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• Donald Trump is going to make an announcement about running for President on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice. Not to be outdone, the same night the Cake Boss will reveal his plan for overhauling Medicare.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Night, Cake

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• I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

  Rick Ross

  Giving, Enjoy Life, One Day

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• I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Trying, Done, Comedy

  "Lunch Date: Rosie O'Donnell". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 30, 2006.

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• It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Treated, Hard

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Fire, Abuse

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