Top 43 Mike Rowe Quotes

#1. I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.

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#2. Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

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#3. I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

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#4. We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist.

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#5. Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

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#6. People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

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#7. You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

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#8. Work hard AND smart.

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#9. Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.

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#10. 'Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess.

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#11. Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

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#12. The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

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#13. Why worry about doing something you love? Figure out what the opportunity is. Find a thing, get good at it, learn to love it later.

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#14. Not all knowledge comes from college.

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#15. I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

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#16. If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit,

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#17. I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.

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#18. Short-cuts lead to long delays.

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#19. We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

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#20. It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host ... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

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#21. What you do, who you're with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

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#22. The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.

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#23. Anything worth doing hurts a little.

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#24. The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

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#25. The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

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#26. Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

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#27. Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there's still a thing called opportunity, and that's what people need to pursue.

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#28. People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

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#29. 'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

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#30. Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate,

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#31. Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

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#32. So you're saying that after I take a disappointing shower I should get in bed and lay there and weep?

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#33. Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.

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#34. Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

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#35. It's about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we're still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

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#36. Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

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#37. Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

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#38. There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

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#39. I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

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#40. Every bad joke, every endorsement deal, all of the things that a typical host would normally get creamed for, people don't mind, because they know I don't cheat when it comes to the work I actually try. I'm a lab rat. I'm a perpetual apprentice. The joke is on me if there is one.

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#41. Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

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#42. Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

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#43. The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.

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