I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
quote by Charles J.C. Lyall
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Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
quote by Peter Tork
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If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
quote by Ray Romano
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It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
quote by Samuel West
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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
quote by Glenda Jackson
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
quote by Jackie Mason
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People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
quote by Ellen DeGeneres
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I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
quote by Arundhati Roy
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A wife is a luxury... a smart accountant a necessity.
Our Abacus
The goals we score are up to us,
An accountant is needed for this abacus.
poem by Naveed Akram
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No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
quote by Heston Blumenthal
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I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
quote by Bob Newhart
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I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
quote by Daniel Goleman
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While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
quote by George Ryan
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
quote by Zakk Wylde
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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.
quote by Kevin J. Anderson
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
quote by Donald Sutherland
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by Bill Dubuque from The Accountant (2016)
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The Accountant
Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, Jon Bernthal, J.K. Simmons, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Tambor, Cynthia Addai-Robinson
by Bill Dubuque from The Accountant (2016)
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