Jobs Quotes · Page 116

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

— H. L. Mencken

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

— Anne Hathaway

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

— Ben Horowitz

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so…

— Zoe Kazan

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your…

— Benjamin Spock

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from…

— Linda Cardellini

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

— Andy Murray

Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.

— will.i.am

When programming was my hobby, I thought that programming would be the perfect job. Now I program for a living and build…

— Ron Porter

I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it…

— Anonymous

The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if…

— Phyllis Schlafly

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still…

— John Darnielle

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense.…

— Dan Quisenberry

My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a…

— Dov Davidoff

Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get…

— George W. Bush

For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of…

— Julia Hill

I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of…

— Virginia Woolf

I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about…

— Ben Wheatley

I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few…

— Dayna Devon

One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy.…

— Robert Holden

The IMF insisted that both Russia and Brazil maintain their currency at over-valued levels. Who are you protecting when you try to…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my…

— John Nance Garner

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

— Jack Nicholson

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

— Nia Vardalos

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

— Rush Limbaugh

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

— Judd Nelson

I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

— Goose Gossage

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

— Gregory Mcdonald

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted…

— Rufus Sewell

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

— Eric Braeden

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I…

— Cameron Diaz

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

— Mary-Louise Parker

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

— Aldis Hodge

Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.

— Virginia Bottomley

It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.

— Sam Palladio

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

— Norm Coleman

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

— Paul Ryan