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Work Quotes


"Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory."


"We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work."


"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."


"And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."


"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."


"For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods."
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"At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past."


"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."
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"At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did."


"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."


"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."


"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."


"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."


"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."


"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."


"To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano ."


"I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists."


"No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen."


"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
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"I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters."


"That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work."


"I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there."
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