- People
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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
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is never good to concede a goal; it is part of our job not to concede, just as it is part of our job to score.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.
- Foreign Affairs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to do this fantastic job now for more than 50 years. To make people laugh, to entertain, create a wide range of emotions - it has always been a tremendous thrill for me, and it still is.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I would occasionally go to the theater and watch what people's responses were, and they would laugh. He makes jokes, and people would respond to him in a human way. Then I've really done my job if I've humanized a really horrible person.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020