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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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"Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs."

"Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do."

"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"

"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."

"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

"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."

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."
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"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."


"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."


"But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says."


"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."


"So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive."


"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."


"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."


"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
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