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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
The day of my wedding, I got a FedEx in the mail. It was my termination papers. I was fired... on my wedding day.
I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.
The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Being fired for bad performance or for having an alter ego that posts incredibly racist stuff is not cancel culture.
A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.
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.
It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens.
Fulfilling your promises is the easiest way to get elected, and breaking your promises is the easiest way to get fired.
Every time I make a record, it's make-or-break time. I hope I always have that mentality - that's what keeps me fired up.
If I see one of my sales assistants neglecting someone because he doesn't look like a good client, he's fired immediately.
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
You can learn a lot about Pat Buchanan by talking to his campaign staff, particularly the ones who have quit or been fired.
I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.
I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.
I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.
I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Donald Trump is, 'You're fired.'
A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.
Melania and the White House had accused me of criminal activity, had publicly shamed and fired me, and made me their scapegoat.
If Hillary Clinton had won the election, which, thank God she didn't, but if she had... she would have fired Comey immediately.
Cool under pressure can be misinterpreted. I'm fired up, but in my mind, I'm calm. Here comes the next play, hurry up, let's go.
One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired Up' for the Saturdays.
I watch a lot of English films but one of my favourites is 'Gladiator.' It's epic - if it doesn't get you fired up, nothing will.
As the father of five children, with three daughters, I'm pretty fired up to have the first woman president of the United States.
I never should have done 'Celebrity Apprentice.' I didn't want to do it because I didn't want Donald Trump to say, 'You're fired.'
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.
I have seen and heard a 21-gun salute as my father is in the Navy, but that doesn't mean I don't jump if a gun is fired in my face!
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
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.
For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
I can be very emotional, so when it's the build-up to a game I enjoy that side of trying to help push the team and get them fired up.
'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.
I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.
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.
The 'Apprentice' was tough, tough work. It was all for charity, so I was thankful for the money Donald Trump gave me when I was fired.
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
I'm taking each match one at a time, not putting expectations on myself, just getting fired up to compete, and taking each match as is.
Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.
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.
At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
One week after getting married in my thirties - while I was working as the main anchor at the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio - I got fired.
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.