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Office Quotes


"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."


"I got off the abutment and walked towards my office."


"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."


"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."


"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."


"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."


"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."


"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."


"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."


"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office."


"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."


"As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this."


"It's easier to run for office than to run the office."


"For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office."


"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."


"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect."


"It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office."


"Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years."


"Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely."


"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"


"Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered."


"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."


"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso."


"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."


"It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office."


"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."


"Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us."


"It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check."


"Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?"


"It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field."


"Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur."


"Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November."


"I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world."


"You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands."


"I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable."


"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under."



"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."


"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."


"Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office."


"I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is."
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