8,413 Quotes About Jobs

  • Author Ian Anderson
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    I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

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  • Author Imtiaz Ali
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    My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

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  • Author Isaac Asimov
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    Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

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  • Author Isabel Allende
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    The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

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  • Author J. J. Abrams
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    Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

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  • Author Isaac Asimov
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    My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

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  • Author J. J. Abrams
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    Well, you know, going into any project, especially with a fan base as vocal and passionate as something as "Star Wars," you will have groups of people who will find issues with whatever it is you're doing. But our job was to tell the best story we could about characters that we loved, and we knew that we needed to go backwards to go forwards, and we needed to go back to a feeling and a place and a time.

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  • Author Isaac Asimov
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    What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

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