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Maxine Hong Kingston

"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."

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

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

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

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"To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways."

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"I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions."

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