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"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."
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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."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers."

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot."


"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."


"Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions."


"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."


"When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way."


"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."
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