- Hero
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do you want an interesting job? Yes. Do you want a balanced life? Yes. And to make a contribution as well? Of course.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hurt my knee, I knew it was time to retire from dancing, and I needed a job just to pay the bills, and I ended up as a receptionist for about three-four years.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come onto the pitch, that's when I'm able to get into that zone and forget about everything else other than just doing my job. But even then, it's not a job. It's playing football, and that's something I love.
- Blended
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- Nov 07, 2020