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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
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"I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later."

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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again."

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Gary Ryan Author
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"Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!"

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Gary Vaynerchuk Entrepreneur, Author
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"I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others."

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Fran Kranz Actor, Director
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"It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it."

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