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Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. -- Sylvia Browne
I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them. -- Graham McTavish
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique. -- George Gershwin
If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one. -- Jean Chatzky
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. -- David Christian
I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them. -- Lily Allen
I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him. -- Lesley Manville
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. -- Nick Lampson
If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work. -- Tim Walz
Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past. -- Thad Cochran
American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me. -- Corey Clark
My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter. -- Jeff Gannon
For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent. -- Tracy McMillan
Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems. -- Eric Ludy
My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do. -- Puff Daddy
My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs. -- Vince Cable
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. -- Steve Jobs
Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job. -- Viggo Mortensen
To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them. -- Dino De Laurentiis
I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be. -- Ramez Naam
The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field. -- Ashraf Ghani
Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past. -- Sandra Postel
The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years. -- Kwame Kilpatrick
The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them. -- Theodore Zeldin
You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past. -- Behdad Sami
In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment. -- Ken Robinson

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