Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Bachelet

As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.

Michele Bachmann

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Michele Bachmann

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

Michele Bachmann

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

Michele Bachmann

The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.

Michele Bachmann

And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the 'job-killing organization of America.'

Michael Stuhlbarg

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

Michael Strahan

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Michael Symon

The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.

Michael Ovitz

When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

Michael Parenti

The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.

Michael Ondaatje

Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

Kathleen Blanco

I just have to say what a magnificent job our most professional team did.

I just did my part. It's my job to put up the numbers and I thought I did that.

I play 30 tournaments a year, that's 22 weeks off. Where can you get a job where you get 22 weeks off? I love playing golf.

Clearly, the labor market is improving, and this should translate into more jobs in the future,

Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.

I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long.

Robert Emms

I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist.

Impossible doesn't concern me. My job is to dream.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

I'm just going with the flow. My main job now is to make sure this (situation) doesn't get in the way of the girls' season.

Kobe Bryant

I'm just achy. You've got to push through it. My teammates talked about doing a better job trying to pick me up sometimes and not having me shoulder the whole load all the time.

Woody Allen

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job

Jim Leyland

I have no comment. I know the job is open, but I don't know anything.

I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mobilized.

The first and probably the most important thing is to not do a rush job and shortchange yourself.

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

Neal Barnard

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

Neal Boortz

Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

Neal Boortz

It is the rare - maybe even nonexistent - politician who will admit this, but number one on the politicians to-do list is always to get reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war on terrorism ... NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power is job number one.

Neal Shusterman

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Neal Shusterman

And next to Allie, the screamer, once more reminded of his job, began to wail in Allie's ear. Reflexively Allie clapped her hand over his mouth. "That," she said, "is totally uncalled for. Don't do that again. Ever." The screamer looked at her with worried eyes. "Are we clear on this subject?" said Allie. The screamer nodded and she removed her hand. "Can I scream a little?" he asked. "No," said Allie. "Your screaming days are over." "Darn." And he was quiet thereafter.