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My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician. -- Jai Courtney
My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. -- Eva Herzigova
Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me. -- James MacArthur
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. -- Elvis Presley
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. -- Bruce Springsteen
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company. -- Nikola Tesla
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy. -- Mike Rowe
To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license. -- Nick Flynn
Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft. -- Gordon Willis
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? -- George Carlin
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. -- Joseph Priestley
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. -- Paul Bley
Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades. -- Liam Hemsworth
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. -- Warren E. Burger
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. -- David Ayer
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? -- Steven Wright
I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway. -- Mike Birbiglia
If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that? -- Arnold Wesker
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest. -- Muhammad Ali
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor. -- John Gordon Sinclair
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare. -- Andy Rooney
An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. That's our job. -- Neville Brody
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you. -- David Ayer
With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant. -- Michael Mina
I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen. -- John Gordon Sinclair
I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path. -- Jack White
I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart. -- Crystal Bowersox
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera. -- Jodie Foster
We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun. -- Thomas Marshburn
I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess. -- Tristan MacManus
I never go on a movie set as the star. I always go as the guy who just does his job, like the electrician does his job and the hairdresser does her job. Let's all work together and make this happen, rather than have the star treatment. I don't do that. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid. -- Shane Filan
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually. -- Nick Flynn
My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician. -- Travis J. Dahnke
It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also! -- Steven Magee
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.[G. W. Richmann died from being hit by lightning, which he had been investigating.] -- Joseph Priestley

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