Jobs Quotes - Page 33

• The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Sadness, Loss, Aggravation

  "Marlo Thomas Remembers 'Growing Up Laughing'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 2, 2010.

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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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• You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in creating a character with a voice and eye right out of a 1930s L.A. hard-boiled classic: guns and gams, booze and bodies, peepers and perps. Move over, Sam Spade: Kitty Pangborn is on the case.

  Linda Fairstein

  Moving, Character, Eye

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• Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• Our Government’s top priority remains jobs and economic growth. Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the continued success of western Canadian businesses and entrepreneurs in the apparel and textile sector.

  Michelle Rempel

  Commitment, Government, Entrepreneur

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• In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

  Joyce Banda

  Training, Different, Credit

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• I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, Believe, Government

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• Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

  Bruce Eckel

  Tools, Can Do, Perl

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• If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.

  Steve Wozniak

  Growing Up, Son, House

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• I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass.

  Joan Clarke

  Men, Luxury, Ass

  "Fictional character: Joan Clarke". "The Imitation Game", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

  Jerry Kramer

  Games, Attention, Hell

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• An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

  Kinky Friedman

  Editors

  Kinky Friedman (2003). “Meanwhile Back at the Ranch”, Pocket Star Books

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• I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

  Hugh Shelton

  Duty

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• A lot of people probably think I'm not athletic or don't even try to work out or whatever, but I do. Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack. I work out to make sure I can do my job to the best of my ability. Other than that, I'm not going up there trying to be a fitness model.

  Prince Fielder

  Athlete, Mean, Thinking

  "The Prince of Arlington disrobes". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. June 26, 2014.

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• We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

  Judith Viorst

  Baby, Loss, Car

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

  Richard Bach

  Work, Done, Alive

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• One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

  Margaret Cho

  Comedian, Ships, Firsts

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Signatures, Finals

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.135, Modern Library

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• I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Book, Religion

  "On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History".

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• I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Writing, Beer, Magazines

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• No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

  James Fallows

  Real, World, Range

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• When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Meaningful, Careers, Skills

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• I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Land, Childhood

  "The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market" by Peggy Orenstein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

  Ken Spillman

  Real, Writing, Aunt

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• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Letting Go, Mistake, Mean

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