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jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." Charles Dickens
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
dollars hiv cost
Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales. David Mixner
dollars poor taxpayers
In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars. Cal Thomas
dollars quarters billions
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. Carl Icahn
dollars exists interest pint rates sell sold spike upset value
The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession. Clyde Prestowitz
dollars millions raise work
You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about. Nick Woodman
dollars three roles
Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry. Earl Weaver
dollars cost
Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. Elizabeth Arden
dollars raw-materials plowing
He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions. Charles Edison
dollars rich made
I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it. Cher
pounds looks results
A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp. Dave Barry
pounds loses seasons
I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season. Bryce Harper
pounds care take-care
Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. Benjamin Franklin
pounds wit prudence
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness. Baltasar Gracian
pounds want aviation
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.' Bruce Dickinson
pounds trying
I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter. Kendra Wilkinson
pounds pork seven
I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork. Billy Bob Thornton
pounds weighed
She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.
pounds
If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney! Neil Cavuto