Mike Rowe Quotes

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• Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.
• The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.
• Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.
• The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.
• I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
• People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.
• I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.
• Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.
• Short-cuts lead to long delays.
• It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re…
• Not all knowledge comes from college.
• Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.…
• If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them…
• Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate,
• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its…
• Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with…
• Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.
• Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form…
• What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

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