Time Off Quotes - Page 5

• This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mean, Years, Serious

  "This Week's 'The List' -- Martha Guilty", abcnews.go.com.

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• In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

  Josephine Tey

  Behavior, Good Behavior, Hospitals

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• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Baby, Motherhood, Juggling

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• When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

  Amy Lee

  Fun, School, Lessons

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• I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

  Anne Taintor

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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• In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

  Ilana Mercer

  Forever, Training, Incentives

  "Why Government 'Care' Will Never, Ever Work". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. October 26, 2013.

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• My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Book, Wish

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• So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.

  Woody Harrelson

  Years, Two, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Honestly, I'm just consumed by the work. Everyday, I'm trying to come up with new stuff and do new things. I don't take time off. I'm always recording and working on my brand beyond just the music.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Everyday, Trying, Stuff

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

  Paul Giamatti

  Goal, Financial, Permanent

  "Profile and Interview: Paul Giamatti". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. August 2003.

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• I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Summer, Teacher, Holiday

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• I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Break, Grew Up

  "Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

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• For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Athlete

  "Bradshaw Questions Romo's Qetaway with Jessica Simpson". abcnews.go.com. January 11, 2008.

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• I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Horse, House, Cooking

  "Designer Q&A: LisaRaye on PZI Jeans". Interview with Elliana Placas, www.essence.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

  David Ortiz

  Fighting, Mind, Needs

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• Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

  George H. W. Bush

  School, Giving, Volunteer

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• The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

  Larry David

  Mom, Mother, Kids

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

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• People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

  Gail Devers

  Mother, Games, People

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• When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Meals, Drs

  "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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• I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

  Elliott Smith

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Jobs, Taken, People

  "A Minute With: Evan Rachel Wood on 'Ides of March'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.

  Bobby Fischer

  Jobs, Tired, Vacation

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• Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Keys, Moderation, Certain

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• I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Land, Lunch

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