I oppose increased black-lung benefits for miners, because ‘they chose to be miners.
Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.
The worst job I ever had was working as a Lady Liberty sign-twirler for a tax services place, where I'd just dance and have fun. The way I talk about it makes it sounds like a fun job - but then I got a staph infection from the costume. So that was probably the worst part about it.
I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.
I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
Every job carries occupational hazards.
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
When you take the job, you never think about how many days you're going to take bullets. Sometimes you go on set and you're thinking, "Ah, a day when I don't have to get shot. This is going to be a nice day."
I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.
