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Image of Arianna Huffington
We're more than just our job titles or our list of professional accomplishments.
- Arianna Huffington
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Image of Michael Jackson
I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.
- Michael Jackson
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Image of Richard Bach
Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.
- Richard Bach
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Image of Walter Isaacson
Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.
- Walter Isaacson
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Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.
- Walter Isaacson
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Image of Robert Jordan
Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene
- Robert Jordan
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Image of Franz Kafka
My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.
- Franz Kafka
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Image of Hugh Jackman
The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.
- Hugh Jackman
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Image of Walter Isaacson
Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.
- Walter Isaacson
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On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
- Walter Isaacson
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I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it would get us a head of Atari in the phone book. He told Wozniak if a better name did not hit them by the next afternoon, they would just stick with apple and they did. 1 Apr 1976
- Walter Isaacson
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Image of John F. Kennedy
I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Byron Katie
I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.
- Byron Katie
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Image of Guy Kawasaki
Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.
- Guy Kawasaki
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Image of Thomas Pogge
The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.
- Thomas Pogge
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Image of Ayana Mathis
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.
- Ayana Mathis
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Image of Steve Jobs
That's my job - to make sure everything is great.
- Steve Jobs
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Image of David Jeremiah
Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.
- David Jeremiah
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Image of Toby Keith
When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.
- Toby Keith
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Image of Mick Jagger
I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.
- Mick Jagger
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Image of John Kasich
My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.
- John Kasich
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Image of John Kasich
I'm not a plotter or a schemer. I'm a guy that looks at problems and tries to solve them, which I have done all of my career, creating jobs in Washington, creating jobs in Ohio.
- John Kasich
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Image of John Kasich
If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.
- John Kasich
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Image of John F. Kennedy
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Kevin Bacon
Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.
- Kevin Bacon
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Image of Langston Hughes
I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
- Langston Hughes
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Image of Michael Ignatieff
There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go to the party convention, who can't take part in politics, because they're holding down a job to pay their tuition. These are kids who want to do public service, who want to get involved politically, but their financial situation is precarious.
- Michael Ignatieff
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Image of Douglas Adams
I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
- Douglas Adams
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Image of Douglas Adams
Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.
- Douglas Adams
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Image of Jesse Jackson
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
- Jesse Jackson
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Image of Russell Baker
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
- Russell Baker
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Image of Stephen King
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?
- Stephen King
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Image of David Letterman
Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.
- David Letterman
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Image of Harper Lee
She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.
- Harper Lee
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Image of Robert Kiyosaki
A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite
- Robert Kiyosaki
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Image of Behdad Sami
Hating is a full time job with no benefits, only an acquired type can do it. I thank God I didnt meet the qualifications.
- Behdad Sami
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Image of Zoe Lister-Jones
Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.
- Zoe Lister-Jones
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Jennifer Lawrence
I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not.
- Jennifer Lawrence
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Image of Jennifer Lawrence
I picked up an issue of 'Cosmopolitan' the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, "I need to get better at interviews." The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, "I do that every day."
- Jennifer Lawrence
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Image of Dov Davidoff
Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo?
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Dov Davidoff
My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Dov Davidoff
There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Jeffrey Kluger
Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
- Jeffrey Kluger
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Image of Jay Leno
Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.
- Jay Leno
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Image of Eric Liu
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.
- Eric Liu
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Image of Stephen King
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.
- Stephen King
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Please will you do my job for me.
- C. S. Lewis
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