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Employment Quotes
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
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"I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places."
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"Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen."
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"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."
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"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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"The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations."
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"I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
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"There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now."
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"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."
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"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"
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"Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth."
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"We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office."
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"Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually."
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"We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce."
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"Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits."
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"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
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"22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush."
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"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."
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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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"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."
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"Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics."
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"It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created."
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"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result."
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"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs."
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"Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got."
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"More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone."
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"Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform."
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"Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either."
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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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"We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs."
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"I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful."
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"For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have."
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"The most important social welfare program in America is a job."
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"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."
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"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
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"A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed."
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"President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs."
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"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
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"To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in."
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"Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries."
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"Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003."
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"Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs."
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"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages."
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"Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs."
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"One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director."
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"Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined."
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"When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs."
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"The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs."
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"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."
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