"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."

Elisabeth Rohm, American Actress

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"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."

Bill Klem, American Athlete

Job, Umpire

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Job, Lonely, Man, Public

"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job."

Shawn Ashmore, Canadian Actor

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"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."

John Podhoretz, American Writer

Job, Presidency

"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."

Kurt Loder, American Journalist

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"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."

Dennis Quaid, American Actor

Job, Months

"In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job."

Rowan Atkinson, English Comedian

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"Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about."

Ed Harris, American Actor

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"One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade."

Larry Williams, American Musician

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"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."

Humor

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

Trust

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth."

Emotion

"If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create."

Change

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

Survival

"Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal."

Ethics

"HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me."

Philosophy

"Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?"

Identity

"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."

Culture

"If this is death, if we are dead or dying or even if we are living and just going to die, then what do we have to fear? What are we worried about? I think the knowledge of death is freeing. That pressure we feel, the weight of life and its impending conclusion, is imaginary. And the fact that we're all in this together is unifying: there's solidarity in mortality."

Mortality