Quotes tagged ‘Unemployment’

“Hundreds of thousands of people like the Ramirez family have become gig workers or joined the informal sector after unexpectedly losing their jobs or being forced to close their small businesses.”

— Nicole Chavez, cnn.com

“Around 5 million more people filed for first-time unemployment claims last week, as the job market in every sector of the economy continues to be devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.”

— David Gura, nbcnews.com

“[at the dinner table] Carolyn Burnham: Your father and I were just discussing his day at work. Why don't you tell our daughter about it, honey? Lester Burnham: Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass t…”

— Alan Ball, Lester Burnham, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com

“Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up, and I think we’re going to succeed.”

— Ronald Reagan, taipeitimes.com

“When used by emotionally healthy people with good intentions, ultimatums offer a respectful and loving way though an impasse that will sooner or later destroy a relationship on its own anyway.”

— Cheryl Strayed, therumpus.net

“Hawaii is one of those places that, keeps topping itself. Just when you think you'll never see another sunset as beautiful, there comes a sunrise that only Gauguin could imagine. It kind of makes unemployment easier to take.”

— Glen A. Larson, Thomas Magnum, Tom Selleck, imdb.com

“I hate to go down to unemployment. It's embarrassing down there. Everybody down there knows you don't have a job.”

— Marc Sotkin, Shirley Feeney, Cindy Williams, imdb.com

“Recruitment Consultant: Moving on, do you have any special skills? Bridgette: Yes...basketball. Recruitment Consultant: You know, I think I might actually have an opening in prostitution. Bridgette: As in, prostitution? Recruitment Consultant: It's actually perfect for you. Make your own hours, pays…”

— Jess Dweck, Frankie Shaw, Bridgette Bird, Frankie Shaw, imdb.com

“Well, I am here to say that some of the most skillful people in the world are unemployed Negroes. Because they have reared their own children, they have reared two or three generations of white children. And they are skilled with love and affection for children.”

— Bayard Rustin, americanradioworks.publicradio.org

“The most urgently needed national policy is a commitment to full employment. When black unemployment is above 13 percent...we have a major national crisis. When overall unemployment by official statistics remains above seven percent...we have a major national crisis....We need to rededicate ourselve…”

— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com

“I think people are terribly frustrated. I think they don't see big issues being resolved. A lot of people are hurting. Unemployed. In danger of losing their homes and all the rest. And the—it shows up in part with the Tea Party, which is really a protest movement in my opinion.”

— Walter Mondale, realclearpolitics.com

“For food service industry and retail, I'm for the minimum wage being increased to at least $12. Not for manufacturing. Software and robotics are going to revolutionize manufacturing in the next 10 years. In the meantime, we have to compete with overseas manufacturing.”

— Mark Cuban, cnn.com

“Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.”

— Mark Cuban, fortune.com

“We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.”

— Mark Cuban, washingtonexaminer.com

“My job is secure. No one else wants it.”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“Unemployment is surprisingly expensive.”

— Zander Lehmann, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com

“I know what you thought. They don't have homes, they don't have jobs, what do they need the top of a muffin for? They're lucky to get the stumps.”

— Spike Feresten, Rebecca, Sony Eddy, imdb.com

“My name is George. I'm unemployed and I live with my parents.”

— Andy Cowan, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“I don’t get you. Who goes on vacation without a job? What do you need a break from getting up at eleven?”

— Tom Leopold, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“Sigmund Freud insisted that love and work were the essential ingredients of healthy human being. Of course he was right. But can love survive the end of work as the willing partner of the good life? Can we let people get something for nothing and still treat them as our brothers and sisters – as mem…”

— James Livingston, aeon.co