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I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell

American mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904-1987)

We can’t be guided – because we’re so far from it. We’ve so destroyed it. We’re so far from that that we can’t use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

Alain Delon

French actor (1935-2024)

You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

Dennis Hastert

American politician (born 1942)

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Marlee Matlin

American actress

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

George Weinberg

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Jasmine Guy

American actress, director, singer, and dancer (born 1962)

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Toni Cade Bambara

American author, activist, professor

I’ve had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there’s not a fire anymore.

Luke Perry

American actor (1966-2019)

It’s my job, it’s what I do, it’s what I’m on earth to do and it’s who I am.

Peter O’Toole

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