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Office Quotes


"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."


"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one."


"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 wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office."


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


"His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours."


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


"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."


"In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office."


"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."


"I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president."


"Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office."


"One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it."


"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."


"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."


"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."


"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."


"Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office."


"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."


"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."


"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."


"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."


"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
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