Jobs Quotes - Page 29

• The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

  Jay Carney

  Government, White, House

  Press Briefing in the White House, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 04, 2011.

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• Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

  Richard Proenneke

  Men, Completion

  "Alone in the Wilderness". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

  Roy Blunt

  Energy, Path, Relate

  "Sperling, Blunt, Menendez and Huntsman". "State of the Union", www.realclearpolitics.com. December 18, 2011.

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• I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Selfish, Lawyer, Reason

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• And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

  Elena Kagan

  Knows, Irrelevant, Values

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• I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

  Kate Moss

  School, Years, Pieces

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

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• Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

  Isabel Allende

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  "This much I know" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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• America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

  Christopher Bond

  America, Battle, Quality

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• It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

  Robert Gibbs

  Eight, Years, Progress

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

  Rob Zombie

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Doe, Form, Blinded

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• So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.

  Buddy Rich

  Opportunity, Practice, Band

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• The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

  Jared Polis

  Strong, Children, America

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• One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Girlfriend, Reading, Horror Stories

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help
  before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Believe, Responsibility, Opportunity

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Perfect, Firsts, Remember

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• Politicians don't create jobs.

  Jamie Whyte

  Politician

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• What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

  John Anthony West

  Retirement, Space, Use

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• A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

  Paul Simon

  Educational, Understanding, Fundamentals

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• No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.

  Robin Sharma

  Kids, Genius

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• No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

  Romano Prodi

  Want, Loses

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• The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

  Celeste Ng

  Space, Giving, Add

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• "Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

  Talking, Automation, Warfare

  "Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Welfare Reform: 'That's the Way I See It'". Jerry Brown's "We the People" talk show in the Pacifica Radio station, February/March 1995.

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• Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

  Terry Goodkind

  War, Moving, Book

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.129, Head of Zeus

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• I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

  Jonas Mekas

  New York, Editing, Culture

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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