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"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."
Mike Rogers
"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."
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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."
Drew Brees
"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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"Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does."
Imelda Staunton
"Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does."
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"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible."
Juliette Binoche
"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible."
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"I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck."
Ernest Borgnine
"I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck."
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"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."
Eden Phillpotts
"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."
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"She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city."
Piper Perabo
"She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city."
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"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself."
James Cash Penney
"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself."
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"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
Dave Barry
"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
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"A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot."
William Randolph
"A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot."
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"I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working."
Kate Moss
"I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working."
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"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?"
Quincy Jones
"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?"
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"Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results."
Caskie Stinnett
"Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results."
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"Our job is not to set things right but to see them right."
Eric Butterworth
"Our job is not to set things right but to see them right."
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"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."
Thad Cochran
"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."
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"Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area."
Jodie Foster
"Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area."
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"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."
Tom Landry
"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."
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"I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much."
Celeste Holm
"I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much."
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"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
Ada Louise Huxtable
"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
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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."
Victoria Jackson
"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 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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"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."
Jonathan Kellerman
"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."
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"It's my job, but I think it is too much."
Jean Alesi
"It's my job, but I think it is too much."
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"I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job."
Ralph Bakshi
"I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job."
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"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."
John Sexton
"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."
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"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
Amartya Sen
"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
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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."
Roland Joffe
"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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"It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail."
Mark Oliphant
"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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"The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes."
Bella Abzug
"The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes."
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"I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces."
Kate Moss
"I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces."
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"So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years."
Michael Shanks
"So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years."
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"I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job."
Ben Kingsley
"I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job."
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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."
Kurt Loder
"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 have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job."
Lisa Murkowski
"I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job."
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"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
Joan Chen
"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
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"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants."
Geraldo Rivera
"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."
Ernie Harwell
"I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker."
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"I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training."
Alison Moyet
"I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training."
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"I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred."
Steven Hatfill
"I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred."
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"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
Danny Glover
"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
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"It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written."
John Paul Stevens
"It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written."
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"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results."
Amy Klobuchar
"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results."
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"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."
Ted Allen
"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."
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"There was hostility surrounding doing my job."
Charles Moore
"There was hostility surrounding doing my job."
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"One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade."
Larry Williams
"One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade."
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"Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum."
Robert T. Bakker
"Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum."
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"I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move."
Jason Mewes
"I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move."
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"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."
Gerald Scarfe
"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."
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"I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead."
Lee Hazlewood
"I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead."
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"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."
Thomas Perry
"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."
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