Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Merkel

The real problem is that the financial base for our social security system is shrinking because the number of normal jobs is falling. In other words, we have to address the challenge of how to make employment, in the classic sense, attractive once again.

Angela Merkel

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.

Amy Goodman

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Amy Hempel

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

Allison Janney

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

Allison Williams

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

Allison Williams

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.

Alma Guillermoprieto

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Anne Robinson

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

Anne Rice

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

Anna Faris

Playing those one-dimensional characters is actually really difficult because you're not dealing with somebody you would ever really know. I don't think anybody here could imagine actually knowing Cindy Campbell from Scary Movies. So, in a way, your job is so much easier when you're playing a person that you really understand and that seems very relatable. I think I was coming to a place in my career where I was like, "I'd like to do something a little more rewarding."

Anna Faris

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people.

Anna Faris

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

Anna Faris

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Anna Deavere Smith

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

Anna Deavere Smith

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

Anita Hill

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

Anita Loos

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

Andrew Tobias

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

Andrew Sullivan

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

Andrew Solomon

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

Andrew Solomon

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

Andrew Lincoln

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

Andy Kindler

I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.

Andy Murray

Tipping generally changes depending on where you are in the world. In Britain you don't always have to tip, but I always make sure I do. I have a lot of respect for waiters and waitresses - it can't be an easy job and they often don't get paid huge amounts, so I think it's important to reward them and let them know if they are giving great service.

Andy Murray

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

Andrew Eldritch

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

Andrew Davies

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

Andrew Davies

I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays the bills because a writer doesn't make any money. If possible, get a job that allows you to write in your spare time."

Andrew Cuomo

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

Anthony Horowitz

So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?" "Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.