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"Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper."
Erika Slezak
"Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper."
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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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"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 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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"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."
Andy Grove
"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."
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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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"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."
Alphonso Jackson
"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."
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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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"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."
David Dinkins
"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."
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"If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now."
Thomas Dooley
"If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now."
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"A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft."
L. Neil Smith
"A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft."
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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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"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."
Peter King
"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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"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
Tom Wilkinson
"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
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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."
Hugh Shelton
"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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"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
Luther Allison
"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
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"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."
John Hall Wheelock
"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."
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"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
Theodore Sturgeon
"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
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"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
Gene Tierney
"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
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"You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it."
Kaley Cuoco
"You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it."
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"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."
Duane G. Carey
"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."
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"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."
R. A. Salvatore
"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."
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"Thank the good Lord for a job."
Wynton Marsalis
"Thank the good Lord for a job."
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"The media's job is to question a premise."
Joey Skaggs
"The media's job is to question a premise."
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"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."
Rowan Atkinson
"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 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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"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
Gunter Grass
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
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"If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding."
Jeffrey Jones
"If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding."
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"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."
John Bruton
"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."
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"It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility."
Colin Greenwood
"It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility."
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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
Bernie Mac
"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"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."
Maria Bartiromo
"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."
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"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."
John C. Reilly
"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 tougher the job, the greater the reward."
George Allen, Sr.
"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."
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"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."
Michael Apted
"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."
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"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job."
John Frankenheimer
"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job."
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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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"Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado."
Robert T. Bakker
"Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado."
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"And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me."
Ian McDiarmid
"And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me."
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"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."
Robbie Coltrane
"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."
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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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"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."
James E. Rogers
"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."
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"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."
Sydney Madwed
"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."
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"Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner."
Spike Lee
"Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner."
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"I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man."
Elisabeth Rohm
"I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man."
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"Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?"
Nicole Kidman
"Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?"
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"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."
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"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."
Kevin J. Anderson
"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."
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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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"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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