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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."

"Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted."

"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."
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"Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard."


"I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things."


"I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing."


"I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now."


"Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before."


"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."


"When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old."
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