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Job Quotes
"Our job is not to set things right but to see them right."
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"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
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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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"I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start."
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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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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant."
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"The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public."
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"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
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"I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job."
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"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."
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"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"
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"Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job."
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"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."
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"As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky."
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"Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew."
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"The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs."
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"It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming."
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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'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
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"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."
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"It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail."
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"It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives."
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"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants."
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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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"The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job."
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