Work & Career: Work Quotes

"The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development"

Andrew Cuomo, Politician

"Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"I am a child, but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to"

Rihanna, Musician

"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want"

John Galliano, Designer

"You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"So, I get a kick out of working with the media"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"The sanctity of work ennobles both those who carry burdens or carry heavy machines, like those who, in the silence of laboratories or offices, give their task the best of their thoughts and their care"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"In my case, for example, my husband works, I work, I make my children work, so there are several of us working to support the family. And the bosses get richer and richer and the workers' conditions get worse and worse"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"Modeling isn't all that tough"

Josie Maran, Model

"A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls"

Sam Keen, Author

"With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart"

Joe Strummer, Musician

"I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs"

Bob Ney, Politician

"Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me"

David Prowse, Actor

"The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them"

Dave Reichert, Politician

"Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker"

Denise Richards, Actress

"I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump"

Andrea Mackris, Producer

"And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most"

Judi Dench, Actress

"My work is rooted in research"

Grace Wales Bonner, Designer

"In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes"

Alice Hamilton, Scientist

"We shred every day"

Fawn Hall, Celebrity

"There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"As an actor, I was just satisfied to work"

Thayer David, Actor

"We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"Our workers' comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia, this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute"

Joe Manchin III, Politician

"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling"

Thomas Lennon, Actor

"When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal"

Yvonne Craig, Actress

"A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement"

James H. Douglas, Politician

"History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show"

Randy West, Entertainer

"When you worked in a studio, it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean, MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it"

George Sidney, Director

"I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know"

Douglas Sirk, Director

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