"Baseball is not what I love. It's my job."
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"Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'"
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"It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today."
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"My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job."
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"It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job."
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"I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy."
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"My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy."
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"I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything."
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"At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do."
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"I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing."
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"It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader."
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"Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies."
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"Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family."
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"Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals."
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"What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it."
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"My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job.""
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"The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality."
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"Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance."
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"All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed."
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"Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs."
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