8,413 Quotes About Jobs

  • Author Nina Bawden
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    I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

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  • Author Noah Baumbach
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    There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

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  • Author Orlando Bloom
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    I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?

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  • Author Ozwald Boateng
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    I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

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  • Author Ozwald Boateng
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    You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

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  • Author Pat Benatar
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    When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.

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