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A REAL job is a job you hate.


Bill Watterson

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At some point, I'll have to go get a real job.
SIMONE BILES I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dr...
BECKY LYNCH When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because...
P. J. O'ROURKE TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
RON WHITE He caught Ben's come in the napkin, the smell making his mouth water harder than any chile sauce cou...
B.A. TORTUGA I was sitting at home looking for a job, a real job, not a football job. I was giving up on this.
JAMES HARRISON If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
SAM WALTON Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.
JIMMY KIMMEL What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
CHRIS LIDDELL A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that y...
CAMERON SINCLAIR Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
SHANE BLACK I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I ...
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER He'd take the rough job, the dirty job. He was a real great, hard-working kid.
BRAD PAISLEY My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first re...
GRAHAM YOST A life coach's job is to move and disturb people. Life coaches believe that anyone is a winner; his ...
JOHN B. BEJO Floyd did a real good job that day.
BEN TROUPE We wasted a real super job by Ramirez.
BOBBY COX Overall, defensively we did a real good job.
JEFFREY HARNESS Bill has done an excellent job in an interim capacity.
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it ...
NICK WOODMAN My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you wa...
IMELDA MAY (Williams) had a good scrimmage. He did a real nice job and grasped things really well. He's taken t...
DAVE BOAL They did a real nice job defensively. The pitcher did a heck of a job. I think we only managed five ...
KORY SHILES We wasted a real super job by [Horacio] Ramirez,
BOBBY COX Granted, a low-quality job is better than no job, but the headline employment figures exaggerate the...
BENJAMIN TAL For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'

'That's why animals are s...
BILL WATTERSON The shapes inched closer. I gaped at them, trying to discern their features. "I think I see dead peo...
JAYDE SCOTT This is a superb bill for America. It lets people keep their money, increases growth and job opportu...
BILL ARCHER If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
MALCOLM FORBES (Lewis) did a real good job against their top scorer.
LESLI PRIEBE My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find ...
KEN BRUEN I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.
ASTRO I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs,...
RON WYDEN Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, d...
P. J. O'ROURKE I'm merely running for a more cohesive unit. It's not a Democratic or Republican thing to have more ...
BILLY JOB I think I have a lot more experience than he does with municipal matters, having four years in gover...
BILLY JOB Now that he's no longer a factor, it appears that it's strictly going to be a choice between what Ju...
BILLY JOB As such, I think it was a good investment, and Ford Park is not a bad idea. It's just that not enoug...
BILLY JOB Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" business mobile
STEVE JOB That amount is equivalent to $500 million and can support 20 students at local universities for a wh...
JOB SIKHALA Those allegations are true. Even at home the uniformed forces are increasingly turning to violent, o...
JOB SIKHALA We came out in the first inning and got some breathing room. It relaxed us. (But) we're still not as...
JOB GUNDERSON We've been having some mistakes defensively. Our bats picked us up today. I told the guys that's not...
JOB GUNDERSON It was ... a little shaky. He walked a few guys (four), but for the most part, it was a good job aga...
JOB GUNDERSON If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
MALCOLM S. FORBES I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would p...
CHRIS STAPLETON And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either r...
DONALD NORMAN Debt is a drag, a reality you may experience with every credit-card bill you open. But for a corpora...
MARK MCKINNON She's doing a real good job. I'm very proud of her,
BILL ELLIOTT He was real enthusiastic. He talked about getting a new job.
MARK KANTOR I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.
GWEN STEFANI Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBOD...
DREW CAREY Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS I thought Andrew did a great job (defensively). When we face 1,000-point scorers like Eric Anthony, ...
GENE AMMIRANTE The secret of getting a job done. Is believing you can get the job done, before even starting to get...
LEBOGANG MARUMO For the first five ends, he did a real good job putting pressure on us. Pete did a good job keeping ...
BRAD GUSHUE There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybo...
MELISSA MCBRIDE I think (head coach Bill) Cowher does a good job of telling everybody, 'I don't care where you came ...
DAN KREIDER Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering r...
PHIL GINGREY If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
MALCOLM FORBES Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVE...
DREW CAREY Obviously Joe Warren did a good job of keeping Booker hitters off-balance. That was key. He's done a...
ED MCPADDEN Wow. Good job, Bill Campbell defense team. It doesn't mean it's a slam-dunk for Campbell. But he has...
JACK MARTIN Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS Access to people who aren't looking for a job is something you don't get with job boards.
JASON GOLDBERG With those types of employment available, there is the sense that more than a job is out there. Our ...
LINDA SCHELL Kevin really gave us a lift. He came in a did a great job for us and Stefan McGhee came off the benc...
BOB MURPHREY Behind every unsuccessful man was a woman telling him to get a real job.
KRIS HUEN I feel real bad for Marc-Andre. He did a great job. You could say there's a bitter irony in this.
PETER JUDGE You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a...
LAURENCE J. PETER You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a...
LAURENCE J. PETER You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done ...
LAURENCE STERNE At the end, a job is not just a job, is who you are, and if wanna change who you are, you have to ch...
REMY If you lived in the wild, you'd need to know how to make fire to survive. But you live in an urban w...
MARTIN YATE I'd rather be in Pittsburgh doing a job I hate than be here in L.A. I got homesick.
RICHARD HATCH Well, you did a good job. You scared me half to death, but you did a splendid job.
DAVE FIELDS We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn'...
JESSICA ST. CLAIR Derek is a real smart player and a smart person, period. He can step up and do the job.
ERNIE SIMS I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin
BILL WATTERSON Our job shouldn't stop with a bill. It should stop with a solution. Congress should be offering solu...
KYLE EASTWOOD Ashley made some amazing passes. And we did a real nice job defensively.
JULIE PATTERSON If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
RONALD DUNN Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was ...
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'That's why animals are s...
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'Denial.
BILL WATTERSON Mothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSON I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas...
BILL WATTERSON I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and th...
BILL WATTERSON I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
BILL WATTERSON At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner mo...
BILL WATTERSON Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these ...
BILL WATTERSON Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better t...
BILL WATTERSON By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an i...
BILL WATTERSON A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be...
BILL WATTERSON I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster th...
BILL WATTERSON It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON [Calvin: A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child.] Calvin is very fr...
BILL WATTERSON