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• But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

  David Rockwell

  Answers, Restaurants

  "Why A Restaurant's Design Is As Important As The Food" by Megan Willett, www.businessinsider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

  J. Cole

  Mom, Dream, Grateful

  "J. Cole tributes his mom Kay Cole in Born Sinner series" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 8, 2013.

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• My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Korea, Wife, Republic

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  Xi Jinping

  Sports, Exercise, Swimming

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• If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

  Ross Mathews

  Succeed, Would Be, Want

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• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  Zach Braff

  Day Jobs, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.

  Richard Proenneke

  Men, Giving, Feelings

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Fun, Engineering, Play

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

  Sam Brownback

  President, Needs, Next

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• Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Men, People

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• This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Hurt, Mean, Self

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• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  David K. Shipler

  Eye, Hands, Leaving

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• In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

  Andy Rubin

  Technology, Thinking, Apples

  "Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant" by Ina Fried, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.

  Kurt Cobain

  Dream, Stars, Rocks

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• It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

  Richard Hammond

  Sports, Mean, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Film-making is a physically hard job.

  Alan Parker

  Film, Hard

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

  Van Jones

  Beautiful, Wise, Work

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

  Goose Gossage

  Way, Remembered

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• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  Walter Russell Mead

  People, Helping, Good Job

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• Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.

  Khem Veasna

  Heart, Helping Others, Views

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• When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

  Timothy Keller

  Suffering, Stills, Prospering

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• Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.

  Peter Sunde

  Hate, Media, Giving

  "Pirate Bay defendant: we can't and won't pay" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that politely. We did far worse things than you can possibly dream of, but we did it with that certainly gentlemanly swagger... Dreadfully sorry, but we seem to have crushed your entire continent's infrastructure. Allow me to make it up to you by offering you a job 4,000 miles away. No, no, I insist.

  John Oliver

  Dream, Sorry, Thinking

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• In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Peace, War, Kids

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• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  Dani Shapiro

  Imagine, Witness

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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