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Work Quotes
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
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"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."
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"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment."
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"No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with."
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"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."
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"Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone."
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"It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan."
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"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things."
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"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."
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"Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it."
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"I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words."
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"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard."
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"We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive."
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"Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it."
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"I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded."
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"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
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"Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed."
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"My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development."
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"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio."
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"Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better."
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"The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours."
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"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."
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"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."
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"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose."
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"It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him."
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"When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things."
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"I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea."
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