Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis Bledel

The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually.

Alexis Bledel

When I was modeling as a teenager... I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?

Alexi Giannoulias

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

Alexi Giannoulias

But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

Alexi Giannoulias

When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

Alexandra Kotur

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

Meryl Streep

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Saul Alinsky

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Ricky Gervais

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

Ricky Gervais

I don't do anything for the money.

Ricky Gervais

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now

Ricky Gervais

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

Ricky Gervais

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

Brian Weiss

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

Brian Dennehy

From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.

Brian d'Arcy James

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

Brian Chesky

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

Brian Chesky

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Brian Eno

Being an artist is a job for life.

Brian Eno

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Brent Musburger

You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously.

Brent Spiner

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

Brent Spiner

Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.

Bret McKenzie

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

Brady Quinn

It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.

Brady Corbet

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesnt? But famous-famous? I just dont care about it. And if you genuinely dont give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

Branch Rickey

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

Boris Becker

The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it's not really who I am in my heart.

Booker T. Washington

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Bobby Scott

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Bobby Ray Inman

If the intelligence we send forward support the views that the administration has, it is welcome and we are told what a great job it is. And if the intelligence that gos forward don't support the views of the policymakers, it is instantly condemned.