The Job

“I know that anyone who works on any job for ten years, or works a full-time job, deserves to make a living wage.”

“The industry needed to change. A lot of people sometimes are intimidated by barbershops. So I wanted this to have my own identity.”

“In those stupid career fairs nobody ever suggested to the little girls, ‘Get into a trade, you’ll make a ton of money and have a lifelong career.’”

“When I first come on in the ’80s, sexual harassment, oh man, it was rampant.”

“Sometimes they ask if they can hug you. Sometimes they just grab you and you can feel them shaking. They’re so happy that she looks normal.”

“The reason I love being mayor is that the issues that I deal with aren’t Democratic or Republican. They’re about common sense.”

“The best thing I can do for my surgeons is to try to be a book of knowledge.”

“In the end, I’ll have handed out about 700 samples. And I’ll sell two blenders.”

“I think about those prairie women that have none of the conveniences we have, what kept them going is beyond me.”

“At times it could be extraordinarily difficult living with all the different names and aliases and so on.”

“It is kind of contagious, the optimism. I guess it just becomes a part of you.”

“Some places call it ‘spray and pray’: post ten things a day, maybe one will go viral. A lot of it is guessing what Facebook wants.”

The siblings are employed at a provider in one of the country’s most restrictive states for abortion access.

I often think: “I wish I could cut to the chase and talk to the dogs,” it would make my life easier.

“You have to ask yourself if you’re making fundamental changes to the education system, or if you’re constantly making superficial changes.”

“There was a lot of pride that went into making the coins for Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous.”

“Americans break everything and they use everything as a crutch.”

“Seeing how we’re going to use predictive technology to help the business world, there are so many applications that haven’t even been explored.”

“Every debt gets paid, one way or another. They get paid by either you, the debtor, your next door neighbor, or everybody else by way of paying more.”

“Most of them are surrounded by people who tell them they can do no wrong so it takes a strong person to come through all that and be level-headed.”

“They’re good jobs. Good-paying jobs. Good benefits. My father raised a family of five girls on a steelworker’s wage.”

“The world is way bigger and more complicated and out of your control than anyone realizes. I’m not smart enough to tell everyone how to change.”

“Not many little girls grow up on building sites. But I think there’s a benefit to starting early.”

“It’s stuff that random-ass people made up online, and then people will come in and expect us to know what it is, and we have no idea.”

“I’m now basically obsessed with the profession. I think it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“In hospice, the family is your patient.”