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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."
Explore more quotes by Hugh Grant
"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."
"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."
"I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do."
"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."
"Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people."
"For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes."
"And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow."
"Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before."
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