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Job Quotes
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations."
40
"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."
40
"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again."
40
"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."
Job,
39
"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
39
"As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world."
39
"I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent."
39
"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."
Job,
39
"I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form."
38
"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."
38
"I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly."
37
"He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different."
37
"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job."
37
"My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working."
37
"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination."
Job,
37
"Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?"
36
"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world."
36
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
36
"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."
35
"I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant."
Job,
35
"It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working."
35
"Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute."
35
"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."
35
"Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs."
35
"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."
35
"I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it."
Job,
34
"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."
34
"I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party."
34
"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."
Job,
34
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