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Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.
Wesley Morris

Music, Person, Different

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
Buck Owens

Life, Work, Him

What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
Steven Van Zandt

True, Person, Around

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
Gabriel Heatter

Success, Power, Human

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.
Alex Lifeson

Good, Experience, Done

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.
Rutger Hauer

Different, Find, Place

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Mary Cheney

Yourself, Rather, News

Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.
Jon Cryer

Business, Fun, Away

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.
Artie Lange

Funny, Greatest, Big

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
Danny Masterson

Understand, Sometimes, Another

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
Len Goodman

Women, Men, School

You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.
Robert Pozen

Success, Done, Sometimes

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.
Robert Pozen

Work, Time, Business

I am pretty tough as a boss.
Vijay Mallya

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.
Ivanka Trump

Deceived, Daughter

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
Michael Cacoyannis

Life, Death, Alive

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
Donald E. Westlake

Morning, Reality, Here

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.
Alan Lewis

Whether, Players, Decide

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.
Frank Robinson

Used, Managers, Leverage

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
Sonny Perdue

Work, Government, Live

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.
Ron Suskind

Bad, Someone, Sometimes

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
Jim Dale

Joy, Director, Telling

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
Craig Johnston

Time, Game, Against

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
Karen Hughes

Friend, Person, President

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can boss them around.
Jeremy Sumpter

Around, Kids, Bunch

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
Charlie Day

Work, Often, Line

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
Vicente del Bosque

Leader, Feared, Admired

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.
Timothy F. Cahill

Work, Whether, Office

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
Tony Shalhoub

Work, Family, Business

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!
Julie Chen

Said, Big, Worry

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