Hired Quotes
264 Hired quotes by 245 unique authors
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Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that…
— Muhammad Yunus
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When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing…
— Neill Blomkamp
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A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he…
— Jonathan Swift
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I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
— Tom Robbins
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I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel…
— Ian Mcewan
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Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four…
— Gunter Grass
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I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel…
— Orson Scott Card
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In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We…
— Janet Evanovich
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How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to…
— Max Lucado
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No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked,…
— Christopher Moore
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It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our…
— John Steinbeck
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire." I lowered Grief until…
— Jennifer Rardin
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People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth…
— Mindy Kaling
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The school sent you flowers. I’m sure that totally makes up for the fact that they hired the psychotic, soul-stealing pedophile who murdered you in…
— Rachel Vincent
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There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or…
— Daniel Handler
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Clarabelle...Clarabelle... You worked as Kenspeckle Grouse's assistant, did you not?' 'One of the. He fired all the others.' 'But not you?' 'He fired me on…
— Derek Landy
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That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.
— Rainbow Rowell
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A guy in an SUV tried to kill me.” “That’s strange.” “Why?” “Because the guy I hired doesn’t drive an SUV.” “That is strange.
— Darynda Jones
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired,…
— Karan Johar
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245 authors contributed a total of 264 Hired Quotes, led by these top contributors: