Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange.

Ted Cruz

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

Ted Cruz

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

Ted Cruz

I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.

Theodore Zeldin

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

Theodore Zeldin

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

Theodore White

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Theodore Sturgeon

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

Theodore Roosevelt

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

Theo James

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.

Theo James

I know I often get a job because of how I look. I hope that I keep the job because of how I act.

Thayer David

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

Tessa Thompson

Veronica Mars was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.

Thad Cochran

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.

Terry McAuliffe

Let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

Margaret Drabble

World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.

Margaret Haddix

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

Margaret Halsey

the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

Marcus Giles

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

Marcus Brigstocke

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

Marcus Buckingham

People quit managers, not jobs.

Marcus Buckingham

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

Marcus Buckingham

There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.

Marcus Buckingham

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Marcus Buckingham

CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

Kimi Raikkonen

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

Kimi Raikkonen

Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.

Kin Hubbard

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

Kevin Steele

A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.

Michael Lewis

The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

Michael Flanders

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Fassbender

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.