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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Completing college is a big deal, and commencements do a good job of making the moment feel big.
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- Nov 07, 2020