- Music
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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
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.
- Mayor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my head, I am always saying that I should play every minute of every game because it is my job and it is what I love to do.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
- Infinity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best basketball player, let's get Bill Russell. If we want the guy who can do the best job for the United States - let's get Donald Trump.
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- Nov 07, 2020