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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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

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

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

"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."

"The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math."

"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."

"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."

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

"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."

"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."
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