Top 100 Quotes About Doing Jobs

#1. Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.

Richard Madden

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#2. I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

Steven Hill

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#3. People in the real world envy footballers. It is a fabulous life with rewards they can only dream of stuck in offices and factories doing jobs they hate.

P.J. Davitt

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#4. I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

Rachel Weisz

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#5. You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

Jacob Vargas

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#6. To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.

Bob Kane

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#7. I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.

Jeff Dunham

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#8. The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.

Stephen Hawking

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#9. Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.

Sharron Angle

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#10. When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

Lyle Lovett

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#11. Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Oprah Winfrey

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#12. One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

Nathan Myhrvold

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#13. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

Margo Kingston

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#14. It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Seth Godin

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#15. You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all ... If that happens, you're doing it right.

Ira Glass

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#16. I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Christina Applegate

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#17. Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

Dolores Huerta

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#18. I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months.

Adrian McKinty

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#19. I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

CM Punk

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#20. People that never had a part-time job in their lives, people that have worked for a company 20 and 30 years are now working for the same company as a part-timer because of "Obama care," because of the basic advantages to doing that in terms of "Obama care" for an employer.

Donald Trump

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#21. I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

David Lynch

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#22. Wherever you are, that's your stage, your circle of influence. That's your talk show, that's where your power lies ... You have the power to change somebody's life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

Oprah Winfrey

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#23. I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.

Royal Robbins

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#24. I want to always be an interloper. I never want to feel like I'm a guy who is embraced by the people who are putting me on the air. I want to feel like I broke into the studio and took over and made them mad. If I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

Bill Maher

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#25. I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

Patrick Stump

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#26. Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

Ernest Renan

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#27. As long as I can reach somebody, then I feel like I'm doing my job.

Bonnie McKee

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#28. I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.

Paula Patton

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#29. There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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#30. I wouldn't want to put myself up for something that I didn't think I could do a good job on. I wouldn't to direct material I didn't feel I could serve, but I don't have anything against doing bigger pictures.

Kurt Voss

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#31. If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

Joe Rudi

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#32. Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

W. Edwards Deming

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#33. Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.

Steven Soderbergh

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#34. It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all ... What a brutal job!

Silvio Berlusconi

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#35. I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

Mariel Hemingway

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#36. The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.

A.D. Aliwat

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#37. The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.

Ted Cruz

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#38. A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so because the job she will get, the man she will marry, the experiences she will have, are very much dictated by her ability to do so.

Frederick Lenz

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#39. Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.

Matthew Lillard

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#40. I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

Adam Driver

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#41. In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy.

Josh Jones

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#42. I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his compulsive hobby into a profession. If I didn't have my job, I'd be doing almost the same thing for free.

Dick Latvala

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#43. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).

Michael Moore

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#44. One of the most encouraging things is to see that so many of these young musicians and worship leaders are really concerned with doing a good job representing the truth of Jesus in their songs, and not just concerned with creative and musical progression.

Matt Redman

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#45. There's something kind of rewarding about playing the hurricane. My job is to create drama and chaos and there's a lot of fun to be had doing that.

Joseph Morgan

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#46. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job,

Valeria Lukyanova

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#47. The press really is not doing its job of holding the candidates' feet to the fire. The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

Michael Bloomberg

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#48. I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they're very happy doing it, but for me, that's not what I want. I like changing things, all the time.

James Purefoy

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#49. Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

Chris Terrio

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#50. There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.

Constance Marie

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#51. That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

Melissa Peterman

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#52. It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

Geneen Roth

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#53. Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.

Anne Hathaway

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#54. Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

William Cohen

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#55. The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.

Mary Parker Follett

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#56. Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.

Alex Gibney

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#57. When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

Bernie Mac

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#58. I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.

Tom Hardy

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#59. A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

Jay Leno

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#60. If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.

Tom DeLay

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#61. The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

Heather Armstrong

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#62. Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs - their real jobs.

Liz Weber

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#63. I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau

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#64. Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

Nancy Kress

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#65. Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Jay Samit

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#66. Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

Michelle Rhee

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#67. We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Lance Burton

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#68. If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.

Quentin Tarantino

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#69. If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Ronald A. Heifetz

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#70. I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

Eli Manning

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#71. Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

Colin Firth

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#72. I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And I feel like I'm not doing the job twice.

David Finch

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#73. Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.

Tony Danza

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#74. Their goal wasn't to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talents. Like the men they worked for, and the men they sent hurtling off into the atmosphere, they were just doing their jobs.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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#75. I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

Robin Williams

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#76. Wasn't it immoral to do work you didn't enjoy? The work needed doing but a lot of people didn't care what they were posted to and changed jobs all the time; they should have volunteered. Any fool could do this work.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#77. There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Penn Jillette

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#78. A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

Bobby Jindal

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#79. I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

Tony Abbott

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#80. But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job .

Val Logsdon Fitch

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#81. Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

Theresa May

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#82. I don't really like to watch myself [in movie] very much, even afterwards. I kind of feel that when I've finished shooting, that's my job done, really. It's not my business what happens to it next. I just do what I do and that's what I love: doing it.

Richard Coyle

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#83. I enjoy it and just smile through it. There are days where you're just pulling your hair out, but, at the end of the day, we are the luckiest people alive, doing what we do and loving our job as much as we do. Things don't get that much better.

Eleanor Tomlinson

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#84. When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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#85. You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

Morgan Freeman

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#86. I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

DJ Khaled

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#87. We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

Marianne Williamson

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#88. In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go out into the world and teach people.You'll reach points of advancement where you'll be able to be of great help to many, many people.

Frederick Lenz

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#89. Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.

Kenneth Branagh

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#90. I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

Abbey Clancy

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#91. Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.

Gabrielle Aplin

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#92. I lost my job, well I didn't lose it, I know where it is, there's just some other guy doing it now.

Bobcat Goldthwait

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#93. People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

Paul Theroux

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#94. Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that's second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That's how you keep America safe.

Jeb Bush

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#95. When you're applying for jobs, it's best to be employed while doing it. You want the world to know that you're not lollygagging between gigs, but instead have a lot of choices in front of you and are actively charting your own path.

Sophia Amoruso

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#96. The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

Norman Vincent Peale

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#97. I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

Henry Ford

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#98. I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people laugh, and being stupid, so I never thought I'd be doing a job where you always have to look nice, and polished and sophisticated.

Gemma Ward

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#99. Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs.

George Takei

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#100. There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.

Danny Brown

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