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Job Quotes


"One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."


"Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order."


"This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it."


"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."


"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."


"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."


"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."


"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."


"A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously."


"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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"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."


"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."


"Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job."


"Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story."
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"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job."


"Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have."


"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."


"I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start."


"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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"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."


"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"


"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."
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