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At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did. -- Mercedes McCambridge
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that. -- Roger McGuinn
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it. -- Bruce Springsteen
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did. -- Steve Guttenberg
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.' -- Walter Mosley
Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering. -- Steve Jobs
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor -- Lucille Kallen
When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor. -- Frankie Boyle
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. -- Chad Harbach
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read. -- Walter Dean Myers
In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography. -- Nathalia Crane
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt. -- Kim Gandy
Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor ... -- Virginia Satir
My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees. -- Chen Guangbiao
The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded. -- Janelle Monae
I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast." -- Ishmael Reed
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My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. -- Jim Carrey
Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility. -- Robin S. Sharma
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school. -- Newt Gingrich
I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger. -- Chris Carmack
We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect. -- Michelle Obama
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah. -- Tracy Morgan
The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess. -- Tammy Bruce
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. -- Ben Affleck
I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do? -- Adam Driver
The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims . . . were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc. It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians . . . It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for undermining civil liberties and internal freedom. -- Noam Chomsky
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint. -- Emily Carr
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career. -- Jacob K. Javits
A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons. -- Wallace Stevens
Treat everyone on the organization with respect and dignity whether it be the janitor or the president. -- Richard Moran
I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living. -- Thom Yorke
I've got keys to crap I've never owned. You put all my keys together I could be a high school janitor tonight. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck -- Kiersten White
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria. -- Richard Brautigan
Real Humility is when I can treat a minister, a prince, a priest, a teacher, a waiter and a janitor with the same and equal respect. -- Jeroninio Almeida
God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord. -- Richard Kadrey
Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice. -- Sue Gunter
Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you know he's still available. -- Cassandra Clare

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