"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."

Work, Needs, Nothing, Theater

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"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."

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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

Terence Stamp, British Actor

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician

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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

John Powell, American Composer

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

Doug Larson, American Cartoonist

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"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."

Martin Kippenberger, German Artist

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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."

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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

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"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."

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"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."

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"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."

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"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

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"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

Time, People, Disguise, Language