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"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."
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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."
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"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."
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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
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"Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted."
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"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."
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"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."
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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."
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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."
Work
"We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so."
London
"I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than."
Change
"My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues."
Music
"I was into playing American music, especially the blues."
Music
"I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars."
Desire
"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."
College
"The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry."
Music
"What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory."
Music
"While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977."
Music
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