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"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."
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"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."
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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."
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"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."
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"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."
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"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."
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"Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs."
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"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."
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"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
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"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition."
Language
"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
Friendship
"Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."
Poetry
"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
Reading
"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system."
Medical
"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."
Being
"The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me."
Language
"I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources."
Being
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems
"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."
Writing
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