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I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.
John Knoll
Best
Job
Particular
Another
Trying
Any
Just
Use
Loyalties
Technique
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
John L. Phillips
Science
Space
Mind
Will
Job
Crew
Crew Members
Our
Those
Guinea
Guinea Pig
Focusing
Guinea Pigs
Members
Fine
Take
Part
Longer
Pig
Pigs
Going
Human
Being
Experiments
Which
Us
Farther
Many
Things
So if you ask those people who say they're standing up to boo Roman Reigns because, 'We don't like him,' 'Okay, would you pay to see Roman Reigns get beat?' 'Oh, absolutely! I'd love to see him get beat.' He's doing his job because people pay to see him.
John Layfield
Love
You
People
Job
Pay
Boo
Say
Those
Okay
Would
See
Beat
Absolutely
He
Like
Him
Because
Doing
His
Up
Get
Roman
Oh
Ask
Standing
Who
Standing Up
Reigns
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.
John Lescroart
Life
Writing
Law
Word
Job
Law Firm
Had
Part-Time
Firm
Most
Until
Also
Times
Often
While
Worked
Working
Productive
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Early
Night
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.
John Lithgow
Myself
Character
Job
First
Sense
Character Actor
Kind
Willing
Able
Some
Totally
Ready
Different
Anything
Themselves
Actor
By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
John Logan
Time
Job
Sunday
Bats
Given
Writer
Knew
Terms
Wrote
Sort
Does
Dialogue
Any
By The Time
In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people over the years. I still think communication is important, but I don't think there's always a correlation between being a great communicator and other virtues that make for a great leader.
John Mackey
Best
Great
Communication
People
Job
Leader
Important
Few
Think
Other
Virtues
Those
Correlation
Great Leader
Between
Over
Make
Talks
Always
Got
Still
Years
Person
Gets
Being
Communicator
Who
Companies
Many
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
John Madden
Life
Work
World
Job
My Life
Every
Broadcaster
Once
Has-Been
Guy
Never
Had
Football
Football Coach
Part
Football Player
Feel
Since
Like
Been
Pro
Did
Pro Football
Then
Really
Coach
Luckiest
Ever
Enjoyed
Player
Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.
John Madden
Great
You
Matter
Job
Jim
Great Job
Put
How
Done
Coaching
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
John Mahoney
Better
Job
Party
Lost
Farm
Think
Presidential
Having
Better Job
Democratic
Democratic Party
Creating
Elections
Team
Two
Need
Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.
John McAfee
Job
Congress
Too
Everyone
Seems
Federal
Lifetime
Knows
Many
All you want to do is first and foremost a job for the team but if you can entertain the people in the stands, and make then enjoy their day, then it helps.
John McGinn
Day
You
People
Job
First
Enjoy
Entertain
Make
Foremost
Want
Then
Team
Stands
Helps
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
John McLaughlin
Music
Goals
Mind
Job
Recording
Way
Give
Main
Particular
Making
Goal
Itself
Any
Form
I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.
John Niven
Me
Job
Single
Solo
About
Boss
Take
Feel
Like
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Overweight
Person
Often
Just
Orders
Just One
Thing
In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.
John Niven
Death
You
Job
Looking
Down
Thirties
Other
Teens
Way
Glance
Road
Occasionally
Becomes
Exist
Then
Forties
Your
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Down The Road
Twenties
Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director.
John Niven
You
Director
Job
Difficult
Back
Writer
Step
Over
Hand
Done
Being
Your
Set
The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
John Oates
Music
Guitar
Job
College
Considered
Only
Had
Category
Still
Falls
Did
Same
Which
While
Might
Teaching
Ever
Playing
It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
John Paul Stevens
Job
Our
Laws
Written
Been
Apply
I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.
John Paul Stevens
Best
People
Job
Think
Positions
Preserving
Possible
Jobs
More
Doing
Than
Maybe
Interested
Elected
Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
John Podhoretz
People
Job
Job Creators
Security
Rather
Risk-Taking
Both
Make
Than
American
Stability
Any
Crave
Them
Workers
Less
Many
Creators
Societies
Need
As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.
John Podhoretz
Speak
Job
Difficulties
Way
Those
Solutions
Find
Some
Both
Voters
Practical
Nominee
Offer
Republican
Romney
Them
Groups
Plausible
It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.
John Podhoretz
Food
People
World
Will
Job
Made
Own
Sense
Arabs
Find
Tables
About
More
Argue
Never
Put
Sons
Day-To-Day
Know
Concerned
How
Than
Any
Going
Whether
Unique
Ever
Among
Basis
Treatment
I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.
John Polson
Love
Age
Job
Jazz
Living
Saxophone
Musician
Fell
Make
Got
Audition
Australia
Very
Realised
Acting
Jazz Musician
Fortunately
Hard
Play
Started
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
John Pomfret
Time
Me
Job
Down
Indication
Bosnia
Factions
Periods
Got
Doing
Came
Very
Different
Hard
Right
Right Job
I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.
John Prine
Time
Home
Me
You
People
Old
Job
Nephew
Some People
Long
Long Time
Older
Neighbors
Visitors
Introduce
Would
See
Some
Stuck
Delivering
Had
Like
Always
Coming
Go
Were
Affinity
Get
Place
Them
Newspapers
Acted
Grandson
Many
Older People
When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.
John Prine
Writing
World
Job
Songs
Always
Been
Escape
Regular
Avoid
Now
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