- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job Quotes
What a job costs, and what it takes.
Quotes about "job" here focus on careers in the arts — a warning that a comfortable day job can quietly end a musician's ambitions, and advice to take any first job just to get into the industry. For work-focused reflection, see Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job ever real job in the field was as an airborne traffic reporter and producer in Los Angeles, but I was laid off pretty quickly - which was totally fair, because I'm terrible with directions, and that's kind of the whole job.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line is this: It is not, in a country that was founded on the values of individual liberty and personal responsibility, the job of the government (read: completely uninvolved taxpayers) to pay for someone else's mistake.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the joys about my job is that I've been able to constantly move and keep changing. The whole point of being an actor is you change your exterior everytime you do a new job and that's what keeps it exciting.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
- Exchanges
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- Nov 07, 2020
A small part of my job at Komen included advocating that mammogram screenings be covered under plans available on the exchanges - just as they are covered in other plans in Georgia.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
- Department Stores
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and I was by far the youngest person, who was totally inexperienced. In those days, department stores around Christmastime were a total frenzy.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020