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We have gotten used to this five million people unemployed, and to a public deficit that's 4 percent of GDP, and with a zero growth economy.

Thomas Straubhaar

I want to see then doing -- such as intervening when young people become unemployed -- but it tends to be concentrated on childhood and teenage years, and ... programs need to be made available to people over the course of their lives.

Bruce Headey

I was unemployed after finishing Save the Last Dance and I went out for this other role. It wasn't like, "Okay, now I'm going to do tv." It was like, I have to pay my rent and my student loan, what can I do? I'm lucky that the show is doing well, so it looks like I've got this balanced plan.

Sean Patrick Thomas

With a shrinking labor pool and a lower unemployment rate, employers are going to have to find ways to train people who are unemployed to fill the jobs that are available.

Andy Katz

These subsidies would ... reduce the unemployment rate of low-skilled workers; put the paychecks of low-wage workers closer to the median scale; decrease the unemployed worker's feelings of exclusion, dependence and powerlessness; inculcate the habits of self-efficacy and self-sufficiency; and increase employees' incentive to better themselves.

Al Gini

There are 7,000 unemployed doctors. Many of these have been jobless for two years. Several have returned empty-handed and some have committed suicide. Those who remain here face trauma, depression and penury. The scene is dismal and it is not going to change so doctors aspiring for UK should beware.

Ramesh Mehta

The incentives are targeted and they may make some difference to people who are in the working class or who are unemployed. I'd expect elections this year because the economic projections at the moment are reasonably positive.

Garry Rodan

This makes it almost impossible for new doctors from India [to get a job] and even the 800 and odd unemployed Indian doctors who are already here hoping to get a training assignment will now have to pack up and go once their visa expires.

Dr Shiv Pande

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

John Mcenroe

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

One focus for economic development is the local unemployed and underemployed.

Jeff Walker

Wolves need to act naturally, and they won't be able to do that if they are confined to the park. When they are seasonally unemployed during the winter, they will move outside the park.

Rob Edwards

[Extending unemployment benefits] is the only kind of stimulus that helps each and every unemployed worker, who in some sense has borne the pain of the recession.

Wendell Primus

Do you want me to send you back to where you were - unemployed in Greenland?!

The Princess Bride

Technically, when a teacher contract ends, that teacher is counted as unemployed unless they take a part- or full-time job during the summer. When teachers sign their new contract, they're counted as employed again, thus the seasonal fluctuation in the unemployment rates throughout the state.

Larry Parker

There are thousands of unemployed Americans with the skills, drive and creativity needed to thrive in the current marketplace. Yet too many cannot find jobs because companies are turning to H-1B workers as a first choice, before even advertising open positions to American workers.

David Huber

He's still in the area. He speaks with his father on his cell phone. He lost his mother a year ago in August and came to Florida to be with his father and get a job. That hasn't happened yet. He's 35 years old and unemployed. That doesn't make a happy situation.

Pamela Lefforge

There's no such thing as an unemployed physician.

Kurt Mosley

A lot of people with technology and business degrees are unemployed or working in garment factories, way below what they're educated for.

Jason Craft

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Many of the wars in recent Burundian history were caused by the growth of unemployment, making unemployed youth vulnerable to calls for armed rebellion. The social and political strife that had engulfed the country for the past four decades entailed consequences.

Nureldin Satti

Actors don't do a good job worrying about their finances. It's difficult because you do not work consistently week after week. You may be very well paid for a job that lasts 10 weeks. Then you're unemployed and you haven't put any money aside.

Conard Fowkes

We have been friends for 15, 20 years and he has been on and on about caddying for me and it has never worked out. When he finally sold his company, he became unemployed and I said I would employ him for a week.

Paul Mcginley

When you're sitting in your apartment and you're unemployed, and somebody offers you a job, unless it's something outrageous, you take it. I auditioned and I got it. I didn't have dance experience, except for some aerobics dance classes, and I had to dance at the final audition, and that was bizarre.

Sean Patrick Thomas

We are hearing of people going back to work who were unemployed for awhile and we are seeing (supply vs. demand) leveling off.

Andrew Guccione

We're sliding toward the danger that the reforms simply create a permanent organization for the unemployed.

Klaus Zimmermann

Having more holidays is a blessing not only to working people but also to the unemployed, who will have more opportunities to find jobs.

Xu Gang

Jobs and job creation are priorities for every country's economy. Improving regulations is vital for all entrepreneurs and key to creating more employment opportunities. Young people looking for their first jobs and unemployed people benefit the most from such reform.

Michael Klein

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Ralph Solveen

Politicians must decide: either they open up the low-wage sector and offer a new chance to the long-term unemployed and those with few qualifications, or they introduce a legal minimum wage. Both together won't work.

Dieter Hundt

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could.

Jeremy Taylor

We're going to fight this battle and try to get this decision reversed. It wouldn't be in our blood to tuck our tails and not fight back. As far as me not being around here, if I get offered a job that is available now then it would be in my best interest to take what is a sure thing. I would hate to stick around here, fight the good fight and not get reinstated. Then where would I be, unemployed!

Derek Delporto

It's so hard to make a living as an actor, with 95% of the SAG members unemployed at one time. That includes all the different unions, too, that unless you HAVE to do it, that it's in your soul and you MUST do it you feel, don't do it.

Stephen Root

We want to legalize marijuana. But we can't sell it in cafes like in Amsterdam, because we'd get all the unemployed Germans coming here. We don't want foreigners consuming marijuana in public. It could demean marijuana. We like the system where a friend gives it to or sells it to his friends.

J.x. Dolezal

Today I have a beautiful movie but five years from now - God forbid - I might not be doing anything at all. I might be unemployed and looking for a job. This is such a rollercoaster ride and I think it is good that I came into it at an older age and that I have traveled and done army service.

Oded Fehr

With five million unemployed in January, you have to ask whether any far-reaching reforms happened at all.

Dirk Niebel

The presidential-nomination system favors the unemployed or the underemployed over the fully employed.

Stephen Farnsworth

It certainly fits the expected pattern. We've been in a strong economy for over a year now. But it usually takes awhile for the economy to absorb the excess out there, people who have been idle and unemployed.

Mark Knold

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Marguerite Duras

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Gerald Barzan

That protects [buyers] should they become unemployed. We'll make their house payments up to $2,500 up to six months or six individual periods during the first five years of the loan. It doesn't matter if it's on the 30-year conventional or if it's 100 percent loan-to-value or on the interest only PLUS product.

Ken Giebel

It doesn't take much. One spouse loses a job or is unemployed for even a little while.

Scott Brown

Given the current miserable economic situation and with over four million unemployed, a strike is the last thing Germany needs.

Dieter Hundt

Boosting employment and access to training and skills for older workers and the young unemployed is one of the European Union's key objectives.

Vladimir Spidla

We campaign for the 600,000 young people who are unemployed. We campaign for the 150,000 Germans who have left our country in the past year because they could not find work here. We campaign for the six million people without jobs.

Guido Westerwelle

If you remember, that's when I suggested the unemployed could line up outside post offices each day for work.

Don Brash

[The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is the proud of offspring of the New Orleans Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1991, leaving its musicians unemployed and stunned.] They didn't tell us, ... We found out because we got letters from our health insurance company saying our policies had been canceled.

John Fairlie

I was number one in the Guardian's top 100 people in the media two years ago. Last year I was number 87. I thought 'I'm unemployed, What do the other 13 do?

Greg Dyke

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Angela Davis

Unemployed people often have the wrong skills.

Claudio Piron

The most important piece of this package is unemployment and health benefits for unemployed workers, ... Nothing more important.

Tom Daschle

The idea of providing $5,000 to evacuees for job training, education and for childcare expenses during their job search is exactly the type of program that would be successful in employing the 7.5 million people unemployed every day in this country.

Matt Fellowes

And then I was unemployed for a while.

Erik Jensen

When preparing their 2001 return, there are some basic tax planning issues unemployed people don't often think of. People need to be mindful of what tax bracket they're in, which may...have changed.

Eric Tyson

There's very little out there beyond COBRA, the private market and the state programs for kids. The biggest problem for the unemployed is not whether there are venues available -- it's just that they're too costly.

Ed Neuschler

The mayor did have the advantage among those who were unemployed and under 62 years old. And those areas of the city that were most impoverished solidly voted for the mayor.

Ed Sarpolus