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Michael Chertoff

"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."

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"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."

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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."

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"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."

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"Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran."

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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

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"You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see."

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"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."

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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."

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"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."

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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

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