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It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there ...

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, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except th...

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The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves ...

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I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I s...

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I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an abili...

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In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is alw...

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Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me u...

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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it i...

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by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are ...

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It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my...

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My job is to know what other people do not know.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagin...

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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come...

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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and ...

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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we hav...

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In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker ...

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It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communic...

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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...

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Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong...

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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degre...

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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time j...

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There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for m...

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When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my...

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I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that d...

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We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winner...

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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a s...

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I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing tha...

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When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you'...

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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to c...

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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional ...

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An Oklahoma girl like me wouldn't even know how to be a diva. I'm just a person who has a cool job. ...

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I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with ...

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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest i...

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I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in th...

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his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in...

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Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to tra...

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No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...

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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more bri...

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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, wh...

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If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's ...

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My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for s...

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I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student l...

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The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away...

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It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, wh...

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But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who w...

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I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I lo...

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There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one i...

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Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highwa...

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You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's ou...

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Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that...

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In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan - a plan...

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Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, a...

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Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off foo...

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Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't requi...

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But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for f...

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But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of h...

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

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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job...

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The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

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After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and...

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Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhaustin...

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Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a famil...

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There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stag...

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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo...

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Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness ...

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Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the uni...

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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hung...

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Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post d...

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Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the ...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big d...

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I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of t...

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Geoff DyerAnother Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. ...

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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment whe...

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The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's lik...

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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for wome...

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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make...

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If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. I...

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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to posi...

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Of course God will forgive me that's His job.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the...

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We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure...

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For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibilit...

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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases ...

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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an unco...

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It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope...

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Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress...

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I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperat...

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There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would...

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