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  • Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers. -- Brad Pitt
  • I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. -- Eartha Kitt
  • I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands. -- Tamara Feldman
  • I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is. -- Miles Teller
  • A brick could be modified to be a cell phone, for construction workers who miss the easy to find cell phone size of the 1980s. -- Jarod Kintz
  • President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers. -- Bill Shorten
  • I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code. -- Emo Philips
  • Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable. -- Martin Filler
  • Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. -- James Surowiecki
  • The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
  • Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? -- David Plouffe
  • The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. -- Lori Foster
  • If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker. -- Patrick Carney
  • Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer. -- Leila Janah
  • Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector. -- Charles Rangel
  • Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you. -- Ansel Elgort
  • So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself. -- Amy Poehler
  • In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects. -- Derek Bok
  • I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it. -- Derek Fisher
  • Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job. -- Dule Hill
  • I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down. -- Adrian McKinty
  • 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 am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. -- Wilbur Wright
  • In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find. -- Sun Yat-sen
  • Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector. -- Charles Rangel
  • Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic, ... And I bet you they're illegal. -- John McCain
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