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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."
William Ellery Channing
"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."
Mandy Patinkin
"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."
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"He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast."
Frank McCourt
"He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast."
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"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."
Larry Bird
"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."
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"Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill."
Luis Gutierrez
"Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill."
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"As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more."
Frank Shorter
"As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more."
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"I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation."
Betty Hill
"I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation."
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"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."
Brion James
"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."
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"I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much."
Ken Hensley
"I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much."
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"The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%."
Sete Gibernau
"The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%."
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"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
Thomas Huxley
"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
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"I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below."
Robert Fitzgerald
"I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below."
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"I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities."
Ben Stiller
"I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities."
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"I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work."
Devon Sawa
"I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work."
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"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty."
Quentin Tarantino
"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty."
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"I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there."
Cillian Murphy
"I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there."
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"Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves."
Guy Laliberte
"Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves."
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"There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous."
Tobey Maguire
"There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous."
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"Every hour of useful work is precious."
William Lyon Mackenzie King
"Every hour of useful work is precious."
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"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with."
Stephen Dorff
"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with."
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"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future."
Mike Rounds
"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future."
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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
Thomas Carlyle
"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
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"People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working."
Kirsten Dunst
"People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working."
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"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words."
Joseph Pulitzer
"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words."
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"The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities."
Adam Ferguson
"The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities."
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"To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end."
Ramakrishna
"To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end."
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"I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything."
Lydia Lunch
"I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything."
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"In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies."
John Gresham Machen
"In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies."
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"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."
Jesse Helms
"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."
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"You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work."
Alain Prost
"You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work."
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"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."
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"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."
Harold S. Geneen
"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."
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"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
Bill Griffith
"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
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"I would loathe to work on modern films."
Julie Harris
"I would loathe to work on modern films."
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"My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard."
Val Kilmer
"My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard."
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"The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech."
George Jessel
"The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech."
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"I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime."
Michelle Rodriguez
"I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime."
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"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."
Charlton Heston
"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."
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"I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved."
Bruce Babbitt
"I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved."
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"But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby."
Heston Blumenthal
"But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby."
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"My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output."
Donald E. Westlake
"My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output."
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"Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better."
Drew Carey
"Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better."
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"When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive."
Jacqueline Bisset
"When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive."
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"I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run."
Izabella Scorupco
"I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run."
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"I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it."
Marg Helgenberger
"I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it."
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"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
John Abizaid
"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
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"I just find things that work and embellish them."
Lindsey Buckingham
"I just find things that work and embellish them."
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"You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered."
Anthony Michael Hall
"You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered."
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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."
Vernor Vinge
"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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"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten."
William Bernbach
"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten."
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