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"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."
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"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
Childhood
"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."
Want
"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."
Life
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
Nationality
"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."
Nation
"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."
Beginning
"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."
Childhood
"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."
Childhood
"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."
Employment
"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."
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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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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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"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."
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"A job is a temporary need."
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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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"President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown."
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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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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth."
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