Quotes of Hired - somelinesforyou

“ Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better. ”

- John Welch

“ It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do. ”

- Steve Carell

“ The city is recruited from the country. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else. ”

- Whitey Herzog

“ An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part. ”

- John Glover

“ Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns? ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do. ”

- Malcolm S. Forbes

“ I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. ”

- Nelson Algren

“ One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions. ”

- Jay Leno

“ Now it is virtually impossible for a vocal conservative to be hired for a tenure-track position on a faculty anywhere, or to receive tenure if so hired. The conservative faculty members I encounter who have achieved this feat, invariably tell me that they were forced to keep their political orientation to themselves until they achieved tenure. ”

- David Horowitz

“ The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. ”

- Charles Kettering

“ I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman, who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend, should be hired to teach my third grade children, I just think the moral decisions are different with a teacher. ”

- Jim DeMint

“ History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ After I realized that I wasn't going to get any acting work, I thought I would try nightclubs. And I got hired immediately at a very fancy supper club. But three nights later I was let go. The manager told me that I was so tall, so imposing, so obviously in charge that nobody was going to believe me… so he said I should try comedy… and I've been hooked ever since. ”

- Beatrice Arthur
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