A Quote by James Cook

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

James Cook

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James Cook
British - Explorer
October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779

Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.

John Gregory Dunne

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.

Dale T. Mortensen

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

Garry Winogrand

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Lindsey Graham

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

Sharron Angle

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

Steven Wright

I see managers with my own eyes walking out of jobs and then walking into jobs, getting sacked and then walking back into another job... yet we can't even get an interview.

Dwight Yorke

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

Patti Smith

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

Rene Balcer

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Robert Kennedy

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.

Charlie Baker

The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

Siddharth Katragadda

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

Victoria Moran

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

Alix Kates Shulman

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.

Rachel Morrison

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