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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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office."


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


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


"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."


"It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office."



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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."


"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."


"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
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