Jobs Quotes - Page 38

• My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

  Arthur Blank

  Player, Agency, Support

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• I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.

  Bo Bice

  Girl, Thinking, Idols

  "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2005.

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• I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

  Bo Bice

  Thinking, Would Be, Firsts

  "Bo Bice's debut video to Include Smurfs, Fairy Dust (Just kidding!)" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. February 22, 2006.

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• If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

  Evan Bayh

  Would Be, Six Months, Lasts

  "Bayh: No Chance I'll Switch Parties" by David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. February 16, 2010.

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• Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

  Greg Behrendt

  Comedian, Looks, Way

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• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  Haley Barbour

  Hurt, Want, Bills

  "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.

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• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  Hannibal Buress

  Real, Half, Months

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

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• But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

  James Belushi

  Mean, California, Paris

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• Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

  Paul Bettany

  Seconds, Five

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• What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

  Joan Blades

  Kids, Blue, United States

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

  Joe Baca

  Kids, White, House

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• I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.

  Kelly Brook

  Mistake, Believe, Passionate

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.

  Saskia de Brauw

  Beautiful, Girl, Careers

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• That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

  Kurtis Blow

  People, Inspire, Violent

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• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  Laura Benanti

  Dad, Thinking, Issues

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• It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Stars, Zuckerberg, Apples

  "What Can Zuckerberg Learn From Steve Jobs?" by Marcus Buckingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2012.

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• There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Pride, Years, Imagine

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• Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

  Tim Bishop

  Guarantees, Helping, Assuming

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• When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

  Melvin Burgess

  Teacher, Zoos, Children

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• It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

  Rick Baker

  Successful, People, Done

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• People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

  Mark Consuelos

  Home, Wife, People

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• I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Appreciate, Important

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

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• If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

  Samantha Bee

  New York, If I Could, Ifs

  "Daily Show's Samantha Bee salutes Canadian roots". Interview with Andrew Ryan, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

  Dorothy Allison

  Facts, Want, Able

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

  Tim Bishop

  People, Suffering, Plight

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