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"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation."
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"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness."


"I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else."


"People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something."


"Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore."


"I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind."


"It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing."


"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."
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