Jobs Quotes - Page 35

• Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it."

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

  Kitty Kelley

  Years, Four, Pages

  "Smudging a Senator’s Legacy" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

  Simon Hoggart

  New York, Stars, People

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

  William Greider

  Average, Years, People

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• I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

  Johnny Vegas

  Night, Thinking, Next Day

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

  Gene Hackman

  Team, Night, Guy

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• I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

  Gene Hackman

  New York, Marine, Years

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• After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  Frances McDormand

  Believe, Character, Simple

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• The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.

  Charles Derber

  Dream, Children, Educational

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• A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

  Tina Fey

  War, Thinking, Iraq

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• I think of her every time I judge myself or someone else too harshly. How do we really know the worth of our work? It's not our job to judge the worth of what we offer the world, but to keep offering it regardless. You might never know the true worth of your efforts. Or it could simply be too soon to tell.

  Regina Brett

  Thinking, Offering, Judging

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• I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

  John Buchan

  Work, Would Be, Desert

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• If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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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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• Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Work, Tao Te Ching

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• Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, Simple, Understanding

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• In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

  Eddie Murphy

  Relationship, Thinking, Two

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Jul 30, 2013

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• It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Thinking

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• They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

  George Thorogood

  Friendship, Cutting, Hair

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• Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.

  Steve Miller

  Friendship, Pussy, Lines

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• My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

  Richard Ford

  People, Empathy, Curiosity

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• So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

  Tony Campolo

  Party, Commitment, Republican

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• As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

  Bernie Siegel

  Work, Years, Two

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• I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

  Jenny Eclair

  Hate, People, Upset

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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