Plumber Quotes - Page 5

• [To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Would Be, Needed, Adopted

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• Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before that, or we should all be plumbers. It must be good to be a plumber. Everyone is happy to see you, and no one reviews your work.

  Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

  Writing, Lasts, Forget

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• If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

  Martin Freeman

  Scales, Shed, Mansions

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

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• I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

  Celestine Sibley

  Moving, Detectives, Kind

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• I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

  Leonard Susskind

  Fun, Father, Sick

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• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  Leonard Susskind

  New York, Father, Smart

  "Can Physics Experiments Catch Up?". Interview with Anil Ananthaswamy, www.slate.com. March 2, 2013.

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• It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

  Serj Tankian

  Mean, Responsibility, Artist

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• Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Doctors, Water, Tubs

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• Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Weekend, Trying

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• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  Jack Gould

  Depth, Doe, Baths

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• You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.

  Andy Kindler

  Drinking, Rights, People

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• If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

  Jay Maisel

  Demand, Might, Clients

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• Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

  Shane Filan

  Thinking, People, House

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• The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.

  Jay Leno

  Alaska, House, Done

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• As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Fake, Challenges

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Teacher, Views, People

  "Viggo Mortensen Loves Politics". Interview with Nina Siegal, www.alternet.org. October 17, 2005.

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• I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

  Adam Richman

  Drama, Math, Yale

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.

  Jason Brennan

  Running, Skills, Radio

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• [ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

  Mac DeMarco

  Giving Up, Moving, School

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my toilet than I do from meeting a movie star. I think my movies are in the same vein as that.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Stars, Real, Character

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life, Positive, Christian

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• I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.

  Steve Albini

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

  Joan Halifax

  Girl, Brother, Motivation

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• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  Weegee

  Giving Up, Play, Shoes

  Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.137, BookBaby

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• I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

  Kevin Cramer

  Ministry, Vocation, Public Life

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