- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clerk Quotes
Quotes on clerks, first jobs, and everyday work
Many of these clerk quotes trace the modest first jobs — popcorn girl, babysitter, sales clerk — that quietly launched bigger careers. One voice recalls never having seen a Black clerk in a clothing store growing up, a reminder of who gets to imagine themselves in a role.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can walk into Tower Records, go get my box set, take out my Steve Miller credit card, and the clerk will look at me and go, 'Thanks, next.'
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
- Inventory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.
- Cash Register
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case. But this case is different. The verdict is far more shocking. Why? Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a job in magazines, which is what I really wanted to do.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
- Later
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.'
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020