"I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver."
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"No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis."
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"As part of my job, I got malaria really badly and was put in intensive care, and I had a hallucination because they give you this cocktail of drugs to fix you so you don't die, and I had this hallucination that I was at the Oscars and I won and I was a really good actress, and it was so real that when I came out of the hospital, I started saying to people I'm going to become an actress."
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"The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism."
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"'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip."
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"I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had."
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"Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies."
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"The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars."
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"I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style."
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"If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig."
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"I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing."
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"My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the other things.'"
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"A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person."
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"Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer."
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"As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad"
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"We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art."
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"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."
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"This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain."
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"There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams."
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"The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity."
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