Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Jackson

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

Greg Kinnear

There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values. Regarding the atomic bomb project.

Gene Hackman

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

Jenna Morasca

Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

John Calipari

I did a better job last year than I did this year.

Humphrey Bogart

Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you. . . . Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now . . . here's looking at you kid.

Phil Bennett

Our job is to go down and do everything in our power to win, ... I don't want to go down there and just be competitive. I want to win. Would I say we're an underdog? Probably so. But we were an underdog last week, too.

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Dick Cheney

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

Linden Ashby

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

Timothy Simons

It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around.

Harry Lloyd

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

The prospects of a strong jobs report at the end of the week will offer some relief to US assets.

Shaquille O'Neal

We have a new leader, and we just have to go out and get the job done.

Rick Perry

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

We were going 1,000 miles an hour, and I don't want to start over again. It's part of my job to think about this, but I didn't.

Aaron Levie

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

A. N. Wilson

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Adriana Lima

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

Adriana Trigiani

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Adam Beach

Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger. After that movie I said, "Y'know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That's gotta be as real as it gets. It's not just dialogue anymore."

Adam Baldwin

This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.

Gary Sinise

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

Jon Scheyer

We got the win, but there are always things you need to work on. We could play them twice more, so we will need to do a better job on the boards.

We got the job done. We scored early. When we got up 3-0 we wanted to go on from there but they played very well defensively.

We got the job done so we can play the team we want to play.

Shannon Brown

We didn't do what we had to do to get the job done. They did.

We didn't do our job on the boards. It was terrible. We've got to be more physical with them. We've got to compete.

We made big kettles of peanut of brittle. I loved the job so much.

Debbie Stabenow

We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.