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"Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard."
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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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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"
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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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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."
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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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"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
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"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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"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
History
"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
Action
"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
Society
"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul."
Soul
"Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States."
Life
"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time."
Time
"Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard."
Work
"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
Life
"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."
Act
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
Life
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