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Quotes About Job

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
~ Kristin Hersh
I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.
~ Ben Gibbard
Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.
~ Dennis Hastert
It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.
~ Donna Rice Hughes
Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.
~ Helmut Jahn
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
~ Ronald Reagan
What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I've attached to my name?
~ Spencer Pratt
I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.
~ Brian Clough
Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.
~ David Remnick
As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.
~ Chris Noth
As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.
~ Donald Trump
It's very, very hard to hire people, qualified people. And a lot of people didn't want the job because it's a three- or four-month job.
~ Donald Trump
There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I have a contract and I refused a lot of opportunities to be the manager of important clubs because I want to stay here. I like this job. I like to be the England manager.
~ Fabio Capello
Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
~ Fran Drescher
Would've made a good Emperor, I said. Not wanting the job is the best and only qualification worth considering
~ Steven Erikson
She felt that, in London, the job would have had to be swift and anonymous, but out here she sensed she had more time to be elegant and thorough.
~ Storm Constantine
Who knows Bob's name in this outfit—let alone his lame child's? ("The last place I worked for, I was let go," recalls the bank teller. "One of my friends stopped by and asked where I was at. They said, 'She's no longer with us.' That's all. I vanished.") It's nothing personal, really. Dickens's people have been replaced by Beckett's.
~ Studs Terkel
More or less," that most ambiguous of phrases, pervades many of the conversations that comprise this book, reflecting, perhaps, the ambiguity of attitude toward The Job. Something more than Orwellian acceptance, something less than Luddite sabotage. Often the two impulses are fused in the same person.
~ Studs Terkel
but the effects of abandonment apply to all types of loss and disconnection, whether it's loss of a job, a dream, or a friend. It may be a loss of one's home, health, or sense of purpose. Abandonment is a psychobiological process.
~ Susan Anderson
Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.
~ Eric Braeden
The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
~ Allison Janney
You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.
~ Michael Weatherly
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
~ Garry Trudeau