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Job Quotes


"I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again."


"I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to 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."
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"The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house."


"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."


"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."



"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."


"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests."


"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."


"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."


"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."



"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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"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."


"I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock."
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"I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?"



"The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job."


"If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry."


"When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story."
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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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"Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado."


"Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities."


"The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it."
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"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
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"You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do."


"The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs."


"The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world."


"Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him."



"My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?"


"While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise."


"A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot."


"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."
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