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• I've got keys to crap I've never owned. You put all my keys together I could be a high school janitor tonight.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  School, Keys, Together

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• Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sarcastic, Money, Sarcasm

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• I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

  Thom Yorke

  Dirty, Banned, Jokes

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• I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.

  Tom Waits

  Eggs, Oil, Personality

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• It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid... These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Crazy, Stupid

  "Newt’s Law of Malevolence" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.

  Emily Carr

  Dog, Years, Rose

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• The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

  Tammy Bruce

  Police, September 11, Complaining

  Tammy Bruce (2009). “The New American Revolution: How You Can Fight the Tyranny of the Left's Cultural and Moral Decay”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

  Nathalia Crane

  Boys, Desert, Geography

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Ambition, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1005, Penguin

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• I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Marketing, Clerks, Dorms

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• But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general for a role from the janitor all the way up to the owner of the club. I refuse to believe there arent more out there that can positively affect any of our games or any of our industries.

  Tony Clark

  Believe, Color, Games

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• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dad, Years, Corporations

  "To Do Well In Life, You Have To 'Read Well'". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 10, 2012.

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• Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

  Kim Gandy

  Jobs, Police, Architect

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• I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.

  Chris Carmack

  Jobs, Dad, Thinking

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

  Wendell Pierce

  Jobs, Night, Next Day

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.

  Negin Farsad

  Creative, Challenges, Boring

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A languid janitor bears
  His lantern through colonnades
  And the architecture swoons.

  Wallace Stevens

  Bears, Architecture, Lanterns

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.109, Vintage

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• I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

  Kenna

  Perseverance, Real, Hard Work

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, School, People

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• In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Wall, Hard Work

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• This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .

  Charles Bukowski

  Tired, Thinking, Whales

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• A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

  Lev Grossman

  Order, Numbers, Interesting

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.533, Penguin

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• With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Mean, Ideas

  "Did Rand Paul equate a right to health care with slavery?" by Louis Jacobson, www.politifact.com. May 27, 2015.

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• In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.

  David Elkind

  Attitude, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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