Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
I got fired from my first job in a store when I was a student because I kept wearing my own things, and people kept asking me where they were from, and the owner of the store got annoyed with me. So I got fired because I couldn’t afford to buy the clothes from the store.
I’ve been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.
I was a sandwich artist at Subway and can still rattle off the order of toppings. I was fired because I got meatball sauce on the ivory cutting boards.
They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can’t control.
The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.
When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Politicians don’t like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car’s gas gauge, and you get stranded.
Drama school can’t make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years – you’re not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.
I’ve always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family – there are 10 kids – I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I’d sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.
But generally speaking, people weren’t fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.
As a head coach, you’re on two lists. You’re the guy that might get fired, or you’re the guy who might go somewhere.
Generals aren’t in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President’s decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.
The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
It’s hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
In a way getting fired up for these matches is what makes the Premier League the hardest tournament for me. Knowing I can lose and still be in the tournament probably makes me relax too much sometimes.
If I was in Vince McMahon’s position, I would have fired myself for sure, 100 per cent.
There was one reviewer from the ‘New York Times,’ I forget his name, who said I was ‘death warmed over.’ I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The ‘Times’ fired him, put him in the cooking department!
To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
The first boss to give me a shot on-air left the station not long after I started reporting. The next boss fired me, and told me I was the worst person he’d ever seen on TV and that I would never make it. That felt like being punched in the gut repeatedly! But I pulled myself together and kept fighting for my dream.
My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that we’ll starve to death.
Like I always say, the goal every day is not to get fired.
There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you’re supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you’re not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.
I’m worried because a lot of coaches aren’t having fun. They’re miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.
When I get fired up, all of that is me. You have to have fun with it because it’s who you are.
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they’ve fired missiles – because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.
I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as ‘shots fired,’ and funny ad hominem attacks.
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden’s head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader’s face.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston’s public television station.
We used to listen to a lot of AC/DC before games to get fired up. ‘TNT,’ ‘Thunderstruck,’ all that stuff. It really gets you pumped.
I was fired by ‘America’s Next Top Model’ on my birthday.
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she’s not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
I get fired up in big games. Other guys might get scared, but with me, my intensity overrules my jitteriness.
I’ve never been fired from an acting job.
I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that’s when it really hit home for me.
I’ve made stupid investments. I’ve made stupid decisions as an employee. I’ve made foolish decisions as a manager. I’ve gotten fired. I’ve lost businesses. I went through all of those things.
Nobody should get fired because of who they are, or who they love.
My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the ’60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches – those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.
When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
I’d rather be fired than retire.
I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.
I often think about what my replacement will do after I’m fired. She won’t have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
People always ask, ‘Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?’ But they haven’t fired me from ‘OLTL’ yet. When that happens, I’ll make that choice.
A Trump administration will take on this fight and send a clear message to the Islamist terrorists: you may have fired the first shot, but rest assured, America will fire the last.
When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
At 18-years-old, you have no money. You have no game. Your life experience is limited to getting fired from a part-time gig at the driving range and totaling your mom’s Saturn Ion junior year.
Whether it’s people walking off ‘The View’ when Bill O’Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
