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"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."
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"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."
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"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
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"After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career."
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"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
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"I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."
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"I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?"
Dumb
"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."
Work
"You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense."
Life
"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."
Feelings
"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."
Home
"There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing."
People
"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."
Career
"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."
Money
"It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here."
People
"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
Singing
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