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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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"In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there."
Paul Cullen
"In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there."
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"I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work."
Star Jones
"I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work."
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"If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
Alma Gluck
"If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
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"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
Maria Montessori
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
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"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants."
Martin Henderson
"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants."
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"I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie."
Aishwarya Rai
"I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie."
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"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."
Hans Urs von Balthasar
"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."
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"Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on."
Isaiah Thomas
"Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on."
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"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."
Lucian Freud
"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."
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"I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics."
Kevin Costner
"I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics."
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"Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary."
Donald Rumsfeld
"Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary."
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"I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track."
Pieter Zeeman
"I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track."
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"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."
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"I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either."
Nigel Kneale
"I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either."
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"We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world."
Matthew Lesko
"We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world."
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"When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece..."
Ramana Pemmaraju
"When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece..."
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"I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit."
Robert Kirkman
"I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit."
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"The problem with prototypes is they don't always work."
Laurie Anderson
"The problem with prototypes is they don't always work."
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"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
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"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."
Truman Capote
"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."
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"To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work."
Jessica Lange
"To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work."
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"I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious."
Andres Serrano
"I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious."
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"Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to."
Richard G. Scott
"Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to."
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"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
Colleen Atwood
"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
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"I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard."
Jacqueline Bisset
"I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard."
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"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
Isak Dinesen
"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
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"You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it."
Lance Henriksen
"You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it."
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"I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses."
Catherine Zeta-Jones
"I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses."
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"I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way."
Mary Roebling
"I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way."
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"Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get."
Matthew McGrory
"Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get."
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"And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with."
Michael Tilson Thomas
"And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with."
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"To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else."
Jahangir Khan
"To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else."
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"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
Vincent D'Onofrio
"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
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"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work."
Richard Dean Anderson
"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work."
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"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
John Edwards
"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
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"Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world."
Jonathan Kellerman
"Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world."
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"The hardest work in the world is being out of work."
Whitney M. Young
"The hardest work in the world is being out of work."
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"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
Earl Nightingale
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
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"I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!"
Harvey Fierstein
"I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!"
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"I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about."
Sandra Oh
"I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about."
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"In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach."
Ivan Pavlov
"In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach."
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"Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed."
Randy West
"Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed."
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"The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work."
Benjamin Cohen
"The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work."
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"Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work."
Nancy Chodorow
"Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work."
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"There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that."
Frank Luntz
"There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that."
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