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"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
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"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."
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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."
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"Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job."
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"I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job."
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"I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job."
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"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."
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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
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"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."
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"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."
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"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."
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"I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies."
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"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
Job
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
Life
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
Intelligence
"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more."
Work
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
People
"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
Defeat
"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar."
Thought
"We love your adherence to democratic principles."
Love
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
Politics
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