#job

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#book #come #day #fantasize #feel

When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#bought #buying #chanel #events #first

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#seriously #take #too #your #yourself

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#being #briefly #duty #find #first

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#around #costs #even #everybody #i

We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.' ↗

— Charlie Gonzalez

#best #court #every #first #hispanic

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#career #daily #fast-paced #got #i

You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#establish #jobs #know #may #mentality

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#because #been #came #cetera #college

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. ↗

— John Green

#basement #contemporary #contemporary art #curator #decide