"Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President."
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"I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job."
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"If ever there was a time for a PM ready and able to do the job from day one, this is it."
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"I am very grateful to my colleagues for their support. There is a big job before us: to unite our party and the country, to negotiate the best possible deal as we leave the EU, and to make Britain work for everyone."
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"I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog."
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"I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen."
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"People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom."
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"The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation."
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"Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all."
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"In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him."
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"The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong."
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"Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more."
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"If a job's worth doing, it's too hard."
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"Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you're going to get."
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"Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it."
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"Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create a great world, as far as the acting goes, it makes my job a whole lot easier."
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"I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it."
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"Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome."
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"To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not."
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"All those awkward moments - that's on the cast for doing such an amazing job. I think it was funny on the page, but when they did it, you definitely went, "Oh!" Watching it with a crowd that, like you said, was not expecting it to be funny, but then genuinely finding it funny, is totally a credit to their performances."
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