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  • If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

    Jobs   Fun   Forever  
    "James McAvoy: I've done X Men... now for a few Zs". Interview with Rick Fulton, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 23, 2011.
  • Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.

    Jobs   Writing   Guy  
    Source: oustedproductions.net
  • D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

    W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2171, eBookIt.com
  • I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.

    Jobs   Grateful   Writing  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

  • You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

    Jobs   Cutting   Errors  
  • My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

  • It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

    Jobs   People   Unhappy  
    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage
  • Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.

    Jobs   Body   Lists  
  • Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

    Jobs   Men   Advice  
  • We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

    Jobs   Bad Jobs   Source  
    "'Fault in Our Stars' author: Oops, I didn't write that quote" By Henry Hanks, www.cnn.com. February 18, 2015.
  • Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

  • I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

    Jobs   Thinking   Knowing  
    AbsolutePunk.net Intreview, October 6, 2008.
  • There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.

    Jobs   Night   Play  
    "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.
  • There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

    Jobs   Zero   Mean  
    "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.
  • We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

    Teacher   Jobs   Teaching  
    Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.
  • I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog [Isaboo, a pit bull] some days because I’m just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I’m doing.

    Mom   Dog   Jobs  
    "COVER STORY: Rachael Ray's Recipe for Marriage". Interview with Michelle Tauber, Liza Hamm, people.com. May 2, 2007.
  • I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.

    Jobs   Men   Thinking  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

    "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
  • I haven't had any bad jobs. I was a hairdresser before and that's it. I still cut my family and mates' hair when they want a trim. If I go up to Scotland to see my mum, I know she'll say, 'Bring your scissors!'

    Jobs   Cutting   Scotland  
    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.

    Jobs   People   Over You  
  • You were right, Hale. It was a bad job. It was a bad call. You were right to leave." "Kat..." Hale tried to reach for her, but even in the sand, Kat was quick and sure on her feet, and she moved nimbly away, leaving Hale with nothing but a fistful of salty air. "Thanks for coming back and helping me find her and all, but..." She looked at Gabrielle, who stood leaning against Simon, still bruised and almost broken. " I think I've got to take it from here.".... She was sure right up until the point when Hale said, "No.

    Jobs   Thinking   Air  
    Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.103, Hachette UK
  • Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

    Jobs   People   Energy  
    FaceBook post by James Altucher from Nov 20, 2013
  • I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting. When I go into a picture I have only one character to look after. If the author didn't do him justice, I try to add whatever the creator of the part overlooked.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.

    Jobs   Powerful   People  
  • "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

    Jobs   Character   Air  
    Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.333
  • Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

    Jobs   Mean   Bad Jobs  
  • I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.

    Jobs   Writing   Mean  
  • Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

    Jobs   Yesterday   Needs  
    Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.
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