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"What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."
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"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
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Personal Development

"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."
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Personal Development

"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one's clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday."
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Personal Development

"Self-employment killed the weekend."
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Personal Development

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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Personal Development

"We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help."
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"I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object."
Sex

"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
Age

"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
Creativity

"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate."
Death

"I come from a family of great readers and storytellers."
Family

"The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power."
Power

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
Film

"The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men."
Man

"Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are."
Nature

"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
College
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