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• My first six years in the business were hopeless.
  There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this?
  I'll never make it.
  It's just not going to happen.
  I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, Freedom, Real

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• The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

  John Sununu

  Jobs, Growing Up, Real

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• I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Real, Track

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• I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

  Lady Gaga

  Jobs, Father, Real

  "Lady Gaga Hooks Up With Polaroid For 'Specialty Projects'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

  Daphne Guinness

  Jobs, Real, Ideas

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• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Jobs, Real, Work

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• A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Jobs, Real

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• A REAL job is a job you hate.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Hate, Real

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

  James Denton

  Jobs, Real, Air

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Horse, Jobs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Real, Titles

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• The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• Your real job in this world is to be you.

  India.Arie

  Jobs, Real, World

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• Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Real, Lying

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• Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Real, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.161, Penguin

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• Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Jobs, Real

  "Oprah: ‘Everybody Has A Calling’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

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• I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.

  Gwen Stefani

  Jobs, Real, Creative

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

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• H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.

  Howard Waldrop

  Summer, Senior, Jobs

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• Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Jobs, Real

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• Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

  Max Brooks

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

  Carl Lewis

  Jobs, Real, Want

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