Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Chancellor

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

Anna Chancellor

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

Anna Camp

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

Anna Chlumsky

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

Andy Roddick

Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

Andy Roddick

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Andy Roddick

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

Alben W. Barkley

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

Alastair Campbell

Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

Alastair Campbell

I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies so that he could send young men and women to war, maybe to die. I think that if the BBC had done their jobs professionally, they'd have realised that you couldn't justify what they said. And nothing has emerged since to justify that report.

Alastair Campbell

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.

Alastair Campbell

What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.

Albert Bandura

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

Albert Brooks

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

Albert Brooks

What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.

Albert Brooks

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

Albert Camus

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

America Ferrera

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours.

Amanda Palmer

I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.

Annie Lennox

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

Annabella Sciorra

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

Clemence Poesy

There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.

Clay Shirky

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

Clay Shirky

Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

Clay Shirky

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

Clay Aiken

I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

Clay Aiken

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

Clay Aiken

I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot.

Clayton Christensen

Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

Clayton Christensen

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

Clayton Christensen

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

Claire Danes

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

Claire Danes

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.