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"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
Walter Cronkite
"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
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"Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more."
Niki Lauda
"Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more."
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"You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do."
Nguyen Van Thieu
"You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do."
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"You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough."
Roy Rogers
"You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough."
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"If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job."
Ian St. John
"If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job."
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"We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?"
Haile Selassie
"We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?"
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"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
Steven Soderbergh
"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
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"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
William J. Brennan, Jr.
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
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"Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants."
Shirin Ebadi
"Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants."
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"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."
Alec Issigonis
"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."
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"I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids."
Chely Wright
"I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids."
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"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."
Sandra Day O'Connor
"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."
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"If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later."
Ed Harris
"If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later."
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Douglas Adams
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do."
Paul McCartney
"I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do."
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"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
Red Adair
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
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"I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was."
Brandon Routh
"I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was."
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"In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job."
Eddie Murphy
"In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job."
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"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."
Mary Oliver
"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."
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"But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it."
Andrew Eldritch
"But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it."
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"I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter."
Joe Cocker
"I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter."
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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
"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."
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"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
Chuck Yeager
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
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"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."
Brooks Robinson
"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."
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"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."
Dorothy L. Sayers
"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."
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"I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously."
Paris Hilton
"I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously."
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"As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn."
Sue Wicks
"As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn."
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"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."
Helmut Newton
"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."
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"I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job."
Alexis Bledel
"I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job."
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"I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job."
Devon Sawa
"I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job."
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"I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done."
Peabo Bryson
"I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done."
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"I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation."
Jerry West
"I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation."
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"The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe."
Lawrence Kutner
"The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe."
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job."
Bryan Robson
"Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job."
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"As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator."
Robert T. Bakker
"As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator."
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"I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly."
Franklin Knight Lane
"I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly."
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"Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job."
Heather Locklear
"Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job."
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"Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about."
Ed Harris
"Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about."
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"Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites."
Steve Irwin
"Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
Fiona Apple
"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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"Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains."
Karl Rove
"Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains."
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"Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room."
William Shatner
"Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room."
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"That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more."
Michael McKean
"That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more."
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"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again."
Stephen Collins
"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again."
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"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world."
Andy Hertzfeld
"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world."
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"At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was."
Pete Rozelle
"At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was."
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"My job is to make sure we keep performing."
Mats Sundin
"My job is to make sure we keep performing."
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"I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that."
John Tesh
"I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that."
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"I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed."
Kenneth Starr
"I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed."
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