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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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"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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"When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job."
Miguel de Icaza
"When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job."
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"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."
Dick Murphy
"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."
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"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."
Michael Chertoff
"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."
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"On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job."
Lou Holtz
"On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job."
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"If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job."
Nigel Kennedy
"If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job."
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"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."
Kevin Garnett
"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."
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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
John Pomfret
"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
Kevin J. Anderson
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India."
Nicholas D. Kristof
"As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India."
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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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"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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"You never get every job you want."
Mackenzie Astin
"You never get every job you want."
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"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."
Harold S. Geneen
"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."
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"Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities."
Michael Zaslow
"Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities."
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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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"This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it."
Andrew Bogut
"This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it."
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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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"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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"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."
Sherry Stringfield
"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."
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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 thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
Richard Ernst
"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
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"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."
Dick Van Dyke
"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."
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"If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready."
Thomas Dooley
"If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready."
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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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"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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"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."
Alice Hoffman
"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."
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"My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters."
Frank Luntz
"My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters."
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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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"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."
Lloyd Cutler
"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."
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"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."
Blythe Danner
"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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"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
Chuck Jones
"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
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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'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside."
Francesca Annis
"I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside."
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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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"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."
Johnny Isakson
"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
Paul Simon
"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
Richard M. Nixon
"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working."
Marvin Olasky
"It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working."
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"The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up."
Donna Tartt
"The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up."
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"I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."
Jennifer Wyatt
"I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."
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"I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job."
Alexis Bledel
"I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job."
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"The way I did it, every job was A+."
Steve Wozniak
"The way I did it, every job was A+."
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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."
Jessica Savitch
"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."
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"He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different."
Don Shula
"He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different."
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"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."
Abe Fortas
"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."
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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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"If my results are not good I will lose my job."
Stuart Pearce
"If my results are not good I will lose my job."
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