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Job Quotes
"Our job is not to set things right but to see them right."
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"I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start."
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"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
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"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
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"I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker."
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"Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order."
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"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."
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"I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you."
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"I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once."
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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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"The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial."
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"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."
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"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."
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"I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue."
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"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."
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"Shooting a television show can be very difficult and at times can really wear on you. If you keep reminding yourself that it is a job and you show up together as a team and as a whole, you can prevail."
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"In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job."
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"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."
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"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job."
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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
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"It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did."
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"The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe."
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"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
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"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
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"That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight."
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"We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world."
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