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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
Shirley Jackson
Best
Me
Job
Too
Give
Give Me
Cleaned
Never
Proud
Western
Person
Handout
Manager
Wanted
Ask
Worker
Who
Homes
Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day - more than a worker in India, a robot or a computer? Can he or she help my company adapt by not only doing the job today but also reinventing the job for tomorrow?
Thomas Friedman
Today
Day
You
Every Day
Tomorrow
Job
Value
Robot
Whatever
Every
Thinking
Add
India
More
Only
Computer
He
He Or She
Hour
Employer
Also
She
Sure
Doing
Than
Person
May
Worker
Asking
Help
Company
Reinventing
Apply
Adapt
I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
A. Scott Berg
Compulsive
Also
Am
Worker
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Education
Me
Father
Made
Earned
Everything
Papers
Factory
Factory Worker
He
Put
Were
Stores
Poor
Aside
Worker
Really
Working
My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
Adam Goldberg
Day
Steady
Since
Began
Celebrity
Just
Worker
Held
View
Acting
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
Funny
Teacher
Saying
Construction
Gone
Down
Guard
Funny Things
Meeting
Characters
Jobs
Security
Postman
Eccentric
Had
New
Wrote
Always
Were
Lot
Did
York
New York
Which
Plan
Worker
Many
Things
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
Adrienne Rich
Other
Our
Strike
Strikes
Out
Physical
Mental
Divided
Taken
Most
Tied
Mothers
Go
Often
Children
Form
Breakdown
Worker
Each
Homes
Compassionate
Bonds
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
Agnes Smedley
Events
First
Aid
Week
Worker
Streets
My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
Aisha Tyler
Construction
He
Fisherman
Worker
Sea
Deep
Dad
Butcher
To shape today's and tomorrow's 'future proof' worker, schools must teach specialized hard skills, such as the STEM skills that are in high demand.
Alain Dehaze
Today
Future
Tomorrow
High
Must
Proof
Shape
Stem
Demand
Schools
Worker
Skills
Teach
Hard
Specialized
Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as long as worker productivity is growing faster than overall wages.
Alex Berenson
Job
Long
Faster
Increase
Adding
Corporate
Markets
Rise
Higher
Overall
Without
Tighten
Enables
Climb
Wages
Continue
Sales
Than
Worker
Workers
Productivity
Companies
Even
Growing
Profits
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Alexander Fleming
Advice
Young
Extraordinary
Neglect
Our
Astonishing
Our Lives
Out
Would
Would-Be
Point
Never
Been
Laboratory
Offer
Trying
May
Influence
Happening
Worker
Appearance
Lives
Chance
I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years.
Alexis Wright
Myself
Me
Trust
Grateful
People
Seen
Own
My Own
Given
Never
Spokesperson
Over
Always
Am
Years
Very
Worker
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
Alma Gluck
Art
Song
Must
Through
Sincerity
Dead
Leaves
Springtime
Branches
Green
Break
Worker
Naturally
Can a Congress worker ever think of becoming a Prime Minister? No. Because that seat is reserved by birth in that party.
Amit Shah
Party
Congress
Think
Birth
Minister
Prime
Prime Minister
Because
Becoming
Worker
Reserved
Ever
Seat
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence of such workers - their skills and their histories - introduce contradictions into the system that are not always easily absorbed or dissolved.
Amitava Kumar
Change
World
Relations
Dissolved
Easily
System
Introduce
Indian
Entry
Absorb
Does
Always
Histories
Contradictions
Worker
Workers
Skills
Production
Presence
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
Ana Castillo
Reality
Book
Border
About
Struggles
Concerned
Issues
Lot
Undocumented
Worker
Serious
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
You
Construction
Every
Side
Say
East
East Side
Would
Weekend
Never
Talk
Isolated
Go
Up
Upper
Worker
Growing
Growing Up
My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.
Anthony Scaramucci
College
Parents
Never
Worker
Dad
Started
I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Work
Love
Family
Had
Counter
Toward
Make
Felt
Ferociously
Room
Worker
Hard
Hard Worker
Pull
Pulled
I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
Arthur Godfrey
Work
Time
Best
Myself
Long
Long Time
Believe
Songwriters
Takes
Know
Craft
Worker
Really
Hard
Hardest
Hone
My dad's a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I needed.
Ashley Thomas
Me
Job
Nothing
Glamorous
He
Footballer
Like
Still
Provided
Worker
Standard
Electrician
Dad
Needed
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
Bernie Sanders
Poverty
Become
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Federal
Poverty Line
Hour
Wage
Line
Child
Official
Current
Worker
Full-Time
Lives
Below
Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.
Bill Cunningham
Today
Care
About
Factory
Bunch
Legacy
Worker
If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.
Bob Menendez
Morning
You
Nation
Breakfast
Slept
Back
Bent
Immigrant
Had
Picked
Hotel
Motel
Got
Up
Done
Fruits
Room
Worker
Your
I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.
Bobby Schilling
People
People Person
Person
Worker
Hard
Hard Worker
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