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Work Quotes
"My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever."
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"When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage."
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"Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform."
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"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay."
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"Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it."
Work,
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"I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it."
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"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
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"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
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"To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work."
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"So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!"
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"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work."
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"Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff."
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"And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university."
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"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
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"At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did."
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"We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done."
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"Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work."
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"I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings."
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"I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic."
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"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."
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"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."
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"It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in."
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"I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it."
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"I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation."
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"We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years."
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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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"The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can."
Work,
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"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."
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