- My Life
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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a job once selling encyclopedias, and that was an interesting job because I learned a lot about people's vulnerabilities and how salesmen take advantage of them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential' and 'actually funny' overlap.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.
- Campaign
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to make the case that I'll do the best job possible representing the people of Georgia's Sixth District, and what they want is representation that's focused on them and not this national partisan political circus.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, it seems like every time I'm about to pack it in, that's when I get a job.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020