Jobs Quotes - Page 30

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, "Cooking is my job, and studying is your job." I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  Ina Garten

  Mother, Thinking, Views

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

  Bow Wow

  Daughter, Hardest Job, Two

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• Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

  Michael Dibdin

  Country, Cutting, People

  Michael Dibdin (2008). “Ratking”, p.166, Faber & Faber

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• I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party.

  Amber Rose

  Party, Scratches, World

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• Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

  Wilbur Ross

  Hundred, Gas, Thousand

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• Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'

  Graham Norton

  Hate, Thinking, Doctors

  "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• It's my job as governor to set a vision.

  Mary Fallin

  Vision, Governors

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• America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opportunity, America, Needs

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

  Richard MacDonald

  Creating, Want, Greatest Success

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• I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

  Richard MacDonald

  Art, School, Years

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• If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

  Joel Salatin

  Best Effort, Firsts, Spanish Proverb

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• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

  Joseph Kanon

  New York, Firsts, England

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• The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Work, Home

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• As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

  Marian Keyes

  Fear, Believe, Men

  "Anybody Out There". Book by Marian Keyes, February 8, 2007.

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• These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

  Greg Mankiw

  Teenager, School, Adults

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• I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Rep. Paul Ryan: “He underplayed the enormity of the task before us, which is to confront a debt crisis”, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Labor Force, Salary, Minimum Wage

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• For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Men, Games

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

  Jaron Lanier

  Photography, Class, People

  "Who Owns the Future?". Book by Jaron Lanier, 2013.

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• I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.

  Scott McClellan

  President, United States, Done

  "McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

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• If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

  Eli Roth

  Home, Blood, Fake

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

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• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Philosophical, Cutting, Dragons

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• My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

  Kendall Jenner

  Dream, Italian, Would Be

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• I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.

  Bob Galvin

  Believe, Leader, Spread

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• Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

  Louise Penny

  Heart

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.277, Macmillan

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