Jobs Quotes · Page 143

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

— Sarah Silverman

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

— Ted Rall

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

— Newt Gingrich

People are really worried about their jobs. That's what everybody talks to me about today.

— Patty Murray

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

— Terence McKenna

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

— Don Henley

There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.

— Michelle Singletary

“I’m the new age miner, going to work at the company’s gold mines, where they charge me for the pick axe”

— Volatalistic Phil

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one:…

— Anonymous

My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer…

— Kevin Spacey

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met…

— Pete Seeger

The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by…

— Anonymous

For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap…

— George Schaller

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay,…

— Yves Behar

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a…

— Carine Roitfeld

Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require…

— Barbara Sher

Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just…

— David Shore

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society…

— Bakari Kitwana

When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of…

— Jay Carney

Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing…

— Michelle Malkin

It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if…

— Audrey Hepburn

That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in…

— Colleen Atwood

Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which…

— Catherine Wilson

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

— John Hodgman

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a…

— Carl Paladino

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

— Anonymous

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

— Tom Colicchio

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

— Carla Gugino

I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.

— Monte Lipman

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

— J. K. Rowling

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

— Janet Street-Porter

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the…

— Kay Ryan

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

— Carrie Fisher

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.

— Robert Kuttner

I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me.

— Elaine Cassidy

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

— Wentworth Miller

Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

— Sam Ewing