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  • I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful. -- Maurice Greene
  • Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know. -- Ronald Meyer
  • If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life. -- Isaiah Thomas
  • I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job. -- Marion Cotillard
  • Nobody goes to work to do a bad job. -- W. Edwards Deming
  • Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly. -- Hugh Laurie
  • Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done. -- Harriet Lerner
  • We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources. -- John Green
  • My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing. -- Isaac Asimov
  • I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick. -- Viola Davis
  • If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? -- Van Wyck Brooks
  • Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene -- Robert Jordan
  • "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..." -- Charles Dickens
  • The misconceptions about grammar posted on the Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do an equally bad job of teaching both -- Raphael Carter
  • There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job. -- Nicholas Royle
  • As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job. -- Nancy Grace
  • In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. -- Richard Stallman
  • D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job. -- Frederick Lenz
  • We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome. -- Julian Baggini
  • Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better." -- Agnes Varda
  • I haven't had any bad jobs. I was a hairdresser before and that's it. I still cut my family and mates' hair when they want a trim. If I go up to Scotland to see my mum, I know she'll say, 'Bring your scissors!' -- Sharleen Spiteri
  • Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that. -- Ivan Misner
  • Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind. -- Henry Rollins
  • Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad. -- Anna Chlumsky
  • It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job. -- Emily Procter
  • A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it. -- Jackie Cooper
  • It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did. -- Drew Brees
  • My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.' -- Aaron Paul
  • This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs. -- Jodi Rell
  • If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes would be more hijinks and more like slapstick. -- Daniel J. Goor
  • My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs. -- Dave Attell
  • Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. -- Renzo Piano
  • I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy. -- Russell Johnson
  • If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad. -- Matt Mullenweg
  • CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex. -- Marcus Buckingham
  • I think the absolute worst job I ever had - not because it was a terrible job, just because I was just so bad at it - was when I worked at a scenic factory in Chicago. -- Timothy Simons
  • After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good. -- Betsy Brandt
  • A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend. -- Mika Brzezinski
  • If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun. -- James McAvoy
  • Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them. -- Miguel Torres
  • It's the best. And the job site isn't too bad, either. -- Karch Kiraly
  • The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape. -- Malcolm X
  • It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. -- Drew Brees
  • These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment. -- Dean Smith
  • Imagine if we didn't have a President traveling the world bad mouthing America....that's the UN's job. -- Marco Rubio
  • I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad! -- Wanda Sykes
  • I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not. -- LaMont Jordan
  • If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you. -- Daniel Radcliffe
  • You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.' -- Javier Bardem
  • I have nothing bad to say about my job. I love the public, I love to talk, get to know people, everything. -- Selena
  • I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad. -- Ayad Akhtar
  • Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line. -- Raheem Jarbo
  • This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • In order to keep surfing (getting-a-job avoidance) we just automatically got into hashish smuggling. Didn't even occur to us that something bad might happen. -- Allan Weisbecker
  • I'm in a mood, Dave. A bad mood, a very bad mood! I was fired from my ice cream truck job today! No more Fudgicles! -- Adam Sandler
  • Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job. -- Michael Kimmelman
  • I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos. -- Jeff Lindsay
  • I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job. -- Simon Schama
  • You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. -- Michael Novak
  • I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards. -- Kurt Fuller
  • When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing. -- Emmanuelle Seigner
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