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"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either."
"Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003."
"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."
"President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs."
"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."
"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."
"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."
"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."
"It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created."
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"The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me."
"We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies."
"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it."
"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."
"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
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