Dirty Jobs Quotes

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn’t bring yourself to do.

If you’ve got a dirty job, the best way is to help each other and then you’ll create this culture of mutual benefit. And then you’ve got to understand who your customer is and create value for them and so on.

Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit.

While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. ‘Do you help your mother clean up the house?’ I asked one girl of seven. ‘No,’ she sweetly replied, ‘I help make the mess.’ It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it.

There must be 15 shows about people’s jobs: ‘Ice Road Trucker,’ ‘Axe Men,’ ‘Dirty Jobs.’ Unemployment is so high, we’re watching people work.

I wouldn’t wish any specific thing for any specific person – it’s none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It’s insane.

It’s funny; it’s a real balancing act. In TV, everybody’s talking about authenticity. In order to make ‘Dirty Jobs’ authentic, I really can’t be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It’s a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

The thing that makes ‘Dirty Jobs’ different is that it’s one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn’t highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a short dress. Yeah, it was a dirty job, but I was going to do it. Come one, come all, bloodsuckers! Bar’s open!