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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation."
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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."

"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience."

"I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next."

"I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie."

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."

"I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on."

"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy."

"My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid."

"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back."
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