Denzel Washington
Actor, Director
"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."
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Unemployed
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Joseph Hume
Politician
"Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us."
Paul McCartney
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working."
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"I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either."
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