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Jemima Kirke

Jemima Kirke

Birthname

Birthday April 26, 1985

Birthplace London, England, United Kingdom

Educated At Rhode Island School Of Design

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Painter, Film Actor, Artist, Actor

Characters Portrayed

Jessa Johansson

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I don’t like women telling other women what to do or how to do it or when to do it.

— Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke), Girls, Season 1: All Adventurous Women Do

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You know what the weirdest part about having a job is? You have to be there every day, even on the days you don't feel like it.

— Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke), Girls, Season 1: Hannah's Diary

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I'm attracted to everyone when I first meet them. And then it wears off. It always wears off.

— Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke), Girls, Season 1: Leave Me Alone

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All that matters are that your rising signs are compatible, the sex is decent, and he supports you creatively.

— Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke), Girls, Season 2: I Get Ideas

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Why didn't you stand up for me? Why weren't you there? Why can't you do one single thing you say you're going to do? You act like you want me to come see you, but you don't know how to have me here. You don't know how to deal with it. You don't know to even have a conversation with me.

— Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke), Girls, Season 2: Video Games

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I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how ‘bossy’ can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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Men are never gonna accept a woman taking charge, especially not a woman as strong as you are.

— Frank McCann (Frederick Lehne), American Horror Story, Asylum: I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 2

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I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind learning.

— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, "I Just Love Bossy Women!"

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If I don't like you, I'll fire you! If you don't like me, I'll fire you!

— Lou Grant (Ed Asner), The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 1: Love is All Around

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Just get a job? Why don’t I strap on my job helmet, and squeeze down into a job cannon, AND FIRE OFF INTO JOBLAND, WHERE JOBS GROW ON JOBBIES?!!!

— Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 3: The Gang Sells Out

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We’re the home team, and we should come first.

— Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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If we are serious about making America great again, this is where we have to start. Not only will repairing our infrastructure create jobs, and stimulate the economy, it'll make it easier for us all to get home at the end of a long day. And in this case we can make American beautiful again.

— Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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Andy: 'So what do you do?'

Frances: 'Eh... It's kinda hard to explain.'

Andy: 'Because what you do is complicated?'

Frances: 'Eh... Because I don't really do it.'

— Frances and Andy, Frances Ha

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Who can tell me there’s any way of fixing this country without jobs? Black or white, they’ve all got one common goal: They need a job. ... Everyone says the economy is doing great. But I don’t see jobs around here.’

— Ed Mash, This Ohio Town Voted For Obama By Huge Margins, Then It Flipped To Trump

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Here’s the thing that I wish someone would have told me a long time ago: Failure is part of it.

— Emma Chapman, 3 Traits Of Being A Boss

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Hire people for their strengths, not their absence of weaknesses.

— Kenneth Roman, Would You Have Hired Steve Jobs?

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I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave me a relaxed manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

— Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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It sounded too good to be true. And it was.

— Clare Nicholson, A Cautionary Tale Of How I Unexpectedly Ended Up Indebted To My Employer

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Third-world countries have substantially lower production costs. They have lower overhead and pay their workers a lot less. As a businessman, I have an obligation to all of my employees and to consumers and stockholders to produce the best product at the lowest possible price.

— Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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You have to pretend you're really enjoying yourself, all of the time, and generate all of this positive energy.

— Holly Darling, The Hardest Part About Stripping Wasn't Taking My Clothes Off

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Before I interviewed with anyone else, I always mentioned that I was happy in my existing role and not explicitly looking to change companies. (That made me more comfortable backing out of the process at any time.)

— My Salary Story, This 29-Year-Old Marketing Manager Was Told She Was "Too Young" For A Raise

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I feel like this job is beneath me. I'm a bartender. I do, like, you know, great things.

— Angelina Pivarnick, Jersey Shore, Season 1: The Tanned Triangle

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Donald Trump builds buildings. Donald Trump develops magnificent golf courses. Donald Trump makes investments that create jobs. And Donald Trump creates jobs for legal immigrants and all Americans.

— Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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When I speak at a college, the students surround me and ask me two questions: First, can I give or get them a job? And second, what can we do about their loans? They haven’t even graduated from school, they haven’t yet started working, and already they’ve mortgaged their future.

— Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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If we do what we have to do correctly, we can create the biggest economic boom in this country since the New Deal when our vast infrastructure was first put into place. It's a no-brainer. It's so obvious that even the Democrats can figure it out.

— Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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I will be the greatest jobs president God ever created.

— Donald Trump, Donald Trump: The Guardian Video

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Bob: 'What do you do?'

Charlotte: 'I'm not sure yet, actually.'

— Charlotte and Bob, Lost in Translation

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[T]he demonstration bore the title ‘March for Jobs and Freedom.’ We realized even then that true freedom and racial equality cannot be achieved within the context of a stagnant economy, unable to provide blacks with permanent, good-paying jobs.

— Bayard Rustin, Bayard Rustin in His Own Words: "I Must Resist"

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You’re just doing your job, and she’s not your boss anymore, so it makes sense that the relationship will change.

— Alison Green, My Boss Got Fired And Won't Leave Me Alone

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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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Jobs are not being destroyed they are being relocated. The fact that you see that as inherently bad means that you are an irrational patriot. To put it another way: a patriot.

— Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), House, Season 8: Risky Business

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I hate being hungry at airports.

— Money Diaries, A Week In Seattle, WA, On A $73,000 Salary

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The people who rigged the system for their benefit will do anything - and say anything - to keep things exactly as they are.

— Donald J. Trump, Full transcript: Donald Trump's jobs plan speech

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Let’s be clear. The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and the world. This is an economic model developed by the economic elite to benefit the economic elite. We need real change.

— Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up

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The goal of life is not to live comfortably. Comfortable is a quicksand. You must keep moving forward or agree to sign the waiver that you understand the risk of being suffocated by perks, 401K’s and ‘well hey, at least it’s a job.

— Paul Angone, 29 Declarations That Will Absolutely Change Your 20s

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At home, taxes will go down, especially for middle-income Americans. And small business rates will be lowered to 15 percent, so we can put millions of news job into our poorest neighborhoods.

— Donald Trump, READ: Full Transcript of Donald Trump Speech in Dimondale, Michigan

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Okay, well you just go get your fancy pants boring job and I'll just be here being exciting.

— Katie, For A Good Time Call

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What is your ideal career?

— Celes, 101 Important Questions To Ask Yourself

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This is the trickle down lie: that if you help big business, this will create better jobs & wages. NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT THIS IS TRUE!

— Marianne Williamson, via Twitter

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We should be rewarding work in this country, not doling out lavish tax cuts to big businesses, CEOs, and bankers.

— Kirsten Gillibrand, via Twitter

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People you work with should want you to do well.

— Darcie Wilder, via twitter.com

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Jill also sounds incompetent … and it says something that that’s the least of the problems here.

— Alison Green, My Dad Is Dating My Boss, And They Want Me To Go To Couples Therapy With Them

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Given the technological revolution, this kind of talk on the part of Negro institutions, merely leads to that atmosphere where Negroes and whites will be fighting in the streets over the few jobs which do exist, or over jobs which do not exist.

— Bayard Rustin, via americanradioworks.publicradio.org

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Factories provide three things this country desperately needs: jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs

— Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), 30 Rock, Season 6: Meet the Woggels

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You want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton, or you want a you're fired president in Donald Trump.

— Tim Kaine, The Vice-Presidential Debate - LIVE Tuesday, October 4, 2016 9 PM EST

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When it comes to creating jobs and straightening out our economy, I am the only expert who isn’t talking in “theory.”

— Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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If that job disappeared, the world might even be a slightly better place. But the worker can’t admit that. Hence the bullshit element. So it’s essentially pretending what you’re doing is worthwhile, but it’s not.

— David Graeber, Your Job Doesn't Matter

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According to this aptitude test, I should be a professional athlete, a park ranger or a correctional officer.

— Nicole 'Nicky' Nichols (Natasha Lyonne), Orange Is the New Black, Season 2: Looks Blue, Tastes Red

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There’s not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won’t pay the bills – unless of course you’ve landed a job as a drug dealer or a Wall Street banker, becoming a gangster either way.

— James Livingston, What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? – James Livingston | Aeon Essays

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Getting angry at the world for your problems isn't going to bring you any closer to a dream job or relationship or whatever else you feel like you deserve. It's going to keep you thousands of miles away from it.

— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

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Do the basic stroke with your hand and mouth, but turn your wrist back and forth as you move up and down.

— Vanessa Marin, Everything You Need to Know to Give Earth-Shattering Blowjobs

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