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Billy Wilder

"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."

Billy Wilder, American Director
Work, Trying, Will
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"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher
Work, Jokes
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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Will Rogers, American Actor
Work, Liberty, Practice
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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet
Work, Despair
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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic
Work, People, Care, Media
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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown
Work, Effort, Results
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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown
Work, Boss, Success, Retirement, Life
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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

Marcel Proust, French Author
Work, Theory, Values, Meaning
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"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author
Work, Man, Home, Machine
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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President
Work, Congress

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"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
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"France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper."
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