"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

Paul Simon, American Musician

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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Woody Allen, American Director

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team."

Randy West, American Entertainer

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"If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."

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"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it."

Peace

"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

Computer

"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

Job

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

Job

"These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls."

Leadership

"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."

Community

"We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything."

Change

"I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan."

People

"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."

Driving

"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."

Liberty