“My job is simply to be myself, to be Ayumi Hamasaki.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
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“My job is simply to be myself, to be Ayumi Hamasaki.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
“A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.”
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Major Richard Sharpe, p. 55
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
Context: He was a Major now, the ranks long in his past, yet he still carried the rifle. He had always carried a long-arm into battle; a musket when he was a private, a rifle now he was an officer. He saw no reason not to carry a gun. A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.
“Terminus sniffed. “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description.”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)
Context: What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. "Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?"
“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La realtà mostra che ci sono differenze anche nelle pose del corpo completamente nudo: alcune mostrano volgarità, trasgressione, oscenità... altre semplicità, fascino ed eleganza.
Source: prevale.net
“I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others.”
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
"49 Million to Five" (3 June 2009).
2009
Context: I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?