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"The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower."
"My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel."
"...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at."
"I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again."
"Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job."
"About the state of black America, I've been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in his early days about wanting to do something about it. We have a lot of violence in our neighborhoods now. We need education. And we need jobs. Is what I'm trying to say."
"To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out."
"[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence."
"Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music."
"I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?"
"I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs."
"We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job."
"The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue."
"Basketball isn't my job."
"My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes."
"In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one."
"It's an odd job, making decent people laugh."
"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
"I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given."
"If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy."
