Jobs Quotes - Page 24

• I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

  Paul O'Grady

  Cutting, Eight, Sound

  "'Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me'". Interview with Maggie Brown, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2009.

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• I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Crazy, Careers, Long

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• Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

  Ruby Dee

  Feet, Shelter, Knees

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• My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

  James Denton

  Real, Air, Years

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

  Danny Bonaduce

  People, Feelings, Radio

  "Danny Bonaduce on Anti-War Jane Fonda". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Blood

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• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  School, Kids, Parent

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• Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'

  Mika Brzezinski

  Dream, Journey, Married

  "Don’t Forget To Have Kids" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Sleep, Thinking, Giving

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• I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

  Ed Westwick

  Family, People, Everyday

  "Ed Westwick: 'I can be a real bitch - people know when to stay away'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 3, 2009.

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• That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.

  Colin Quinn

  Comedian, Lucky

  "Colin Quinn On Brad Pitt, Herman Cain, Comedy And Twitter". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

  Lea Salonga

  Wells, Knows

  FaceBook post by Lea Salonga from Dec 18, 2009

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• There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.

  Gail Simone

  Editors, Names, Forever

  "Gail Simone : Survival Tips for the Newbie Writer" by Gail Simone, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

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• I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.

  Chris Barber

  Opportunity, Office, Shadow

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• The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Garden, Needs, Answers

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

  Katie Hopkins

  Beautiful, Looks, Size

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• Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

  Gwen Ifill

  President, Management, Courses

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• These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

  C. B. Cebulski

  Comic Book, Break, These Days

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• The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

  Saul

  Enemy, Bait, Establishment

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• Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mirrors, Effort, Gears

  "Clarkson joke sparks complaints", news.bbc.co.uk. November 4, 2008.

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• I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.

  Mark Burnett

  America, People, Risk

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• There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Media, Doubt

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• I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

  William Kentridge

  Artist, Drawing, Make Sense

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• I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

  Rhonda Byrne

  Government, People, Lazy

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• Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Inspire, Want, Missions

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