Odd Jobs Quotes

• I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Dad, Father

  "Friends say the real John Boehner nothing like his 'insider' image" by Padmananda Rama and Brianna Keilar, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2010.

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• But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

  Elliott Smith

  Jobs, Tree, Portland

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• I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

  David Boreanaz

  Jobs, Pain, Thinking

  "David Boreanaz - Interviewed on location for Carpe Noctem in Los Angels". BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 22, 2001.

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• When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

  Margaret Laurence

  Mean Girls, Jobs, Writing

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• I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Jobs, Men, Odd

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• [My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mother, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

  Moliere

  Jobs, Laughter, Work

  'La Critique de l'ècole des femmes' (1663) sc. 6

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• I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

  Frank Fairfield

  Jobs, Moving, Oysters

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Jobs, Should Have

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.

  Vance Joy

  Jobs, Personality, Creative

  "Vance Joy’s Imaginary Dreams". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2014.

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• I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

  Robert Reed

  Jobs, Fiction, Nebraska

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• I wanted to be a therapist if the acting didn't work. I also did a lot waitressing and odd jobs. I'd audition but couldn't get hired to save my life. I'd do Off-Broadway theatre and that was great and I was excited and thrilled, feeling like, 'Well, it's Off-Broadway, but there's still the Broadway in there.'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Broadway Theatre, Feelings

  "Jennifer Aniston: I miss my Friends". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2013.

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• I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, Flower, Clothes

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

  Christopher Abbott

  Jobs, Home, Wine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, Flower, Odd

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• My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure.

  Suresh Raina

  Senior, Jobs, Dirty

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• I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

  David Lynch

  Jobs, Wall, Odd

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• Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

  Karl Pilkington

  Jobs, Media, People

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

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• I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people.

  Jess Weixler

  Girl, Jobs, People

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• When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

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• I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

  Paul Dano

  Jobs, School, Acting

  "MC's Crush of the Month: Paul Dano". Interview with Leslie Barrie, www.marieclaire.com. April 3, 2009.

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• I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

  John Thaw

  Jobs, Couple, School

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• I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

  Luke Perry

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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

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• I'm just a regular dude with an odd job.

  Pat Barry

  Jobs, Mma, Odd

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