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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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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything ...

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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...

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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure mo...

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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and ...

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You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or mi...

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You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ...

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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to m...

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Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will ...

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I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and...

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The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do, and I know every job comes with a downsid...

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Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare ...

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It's not our job to choose the best Sunday school teacher, like Jimmy Carter was. It's our job to ch...

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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assist...

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Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? ...

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My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of al...

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care abo...

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My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He ...

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It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear....

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My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...

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I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just t...

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Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader...

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There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense pr...

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Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the...

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My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It...

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You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.