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Job Quotes

"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."

"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, German Athlete

Job, Now, Right, Want

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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."

"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."

Mark Strong, English Actor

Job, Now, Options, Past

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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."

"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."

Elisabeth Rohm, American Actress

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"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."

"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."

Gunter Grass, German Author

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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."

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

Amy Klobuchar, American Politician

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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."

"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, American Actress

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"What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place."

"What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place."

Tom Brokaw, American Journalist

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"I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job."

"I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job."

Lisa Murkowski, American Politician

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"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."

"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."

Abe Fortas, American Judge

Job, Lonely, Man, May

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

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

William Glasser, American Psychologist

Job, May, Teaching

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"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."

"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."

John Bruton, Irish Politician

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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."

"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, American Politician

Job, Running, Years

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

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

William Randolph, American Politician

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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."

"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, American Politician

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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."

"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, American Politician

Job, Past, Saying

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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."

"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, American Poet

Job, Publishing, World

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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."

"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, British Artist

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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."

"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."

Bernie Mac, American Actor

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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Job, Man, Woman

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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

Noah Wyle, American Actor

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"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."

John Gregory Dunne, American Writer

Job, Labor, Writing

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"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."

"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."

Johnny Isakson, American Politician

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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."

"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, Canadian Athlete

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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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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."

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

Eden Phillpotts, English Novelist

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"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."

"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."

George Allen, Sr., American Coach

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"I have not had any serious non-academic job."

"I have not had any serious non-academic job."

Amartya Sen, Indian Philosopher

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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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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."

"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, American Musician

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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."

"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, American President

Job, Lonely, Man, Public

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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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