Jobs Quotes - Page 36

• Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message.

  Jim Kern

  Children, Messages, Helping

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• My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

  Mare Winningham

  Vocation, Mothering, Suitable

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• Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Danger, Dangerous, Persons

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• For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Baby, Moving, Home

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• Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

  John Major

  Dollars, Pounds, Invention

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

  Jon Lovitz

  Years, Clubs, Firsts

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Office, Oval

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Joy, Pleasure

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• My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

  Brett Favre

  Leader

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• It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

  Sara Blakely

  Manage, Full Time Jobs, Our Lives

  "The New American Couple". Article by Lea Goldman, www.marieclaire.com. March 20, 2011.

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• I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

  Lauren Holly

  Husband, Moving, Chicago

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• My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Medicine, Research, Alive

  "The Nights and Days Of Elizabeth Edwards". Interview with Monica Langley, www.wsj.com. July 21, 2007.

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• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

  Warren Farrell

  Boys, Emotional, Government

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Children, Dad, School

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• I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Lucky, Actors

  "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.

  Kathy Ireland

  Old Job, People, Today

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• I won't give up my day job of design.

  Kathy Ireland

  Giving Up, Design, I Won't Give Up

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• People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

  Richard Cobden

  People, Able, Potatoes

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• I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Important, Littles, Realizing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Moving, Way, Kind

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• I'm famous. That's my job.

  Jerry Rubin

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• I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was desperate to get a job and couldn't, so I think it's anathema for me to turn down work if I think it's really good.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Years, Kind

  "Matt Damon - Exclusive Interview - The Bourne Supremacy". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 2, 2005.

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• I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

  Joe Pesci

  Wall, Work, Humble

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• You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

  Anthony Anderson

  Opportunity, Rapper, Ice

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

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