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Job Quotes


"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."


"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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"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."


"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."


"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."


"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."


"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?"


"Our job is not to set things right but to see them right."


"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."


"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."


"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."


"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."


"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."


"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."


"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."
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"The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes."
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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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"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants."


"It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written."


"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results."


"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."


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


"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."
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