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"I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work."
Andres Serrano
"I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work."
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"I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it."
Steve Prefontaine
"I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it."
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"We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done."
Rahm Emanuel
"We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done."
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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
Mark Haddon
"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
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"My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy."
Pamela Anderson
"My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy."
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"My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers."
Galen Rowell
"My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers."
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"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it."
Bob Newhart
"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it."
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"Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other."
Richard G. Scott
"Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other."
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"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
Charles Darwin
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
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"In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!"
Jim Diamond
"In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!"
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"In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress."
Tim Murphy
"In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress."
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"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit."
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"A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation."
Ryne Sandberg
"A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation."
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"I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city."
Tony Campolo
"I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city."
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"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
Nick Lowe
"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
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"I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy."
Ed Pastor
"I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy."
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"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."
Siobhan Davies
"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."
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"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.""
Barbara Ehrenreich
"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.""
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"Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses."
Tom Allen
"Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses."
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"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
Margaret Thatcher
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
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"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Tobias Wolff
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
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"Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work."
Tea Leoni
"Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work."
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"When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years."
Joe Pantoliano
"When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years."
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"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
Michael Lewis
"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
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"I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work."
Andres Serrano
"I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work."
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"I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy."
Julie Benz
"I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy."
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"You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense."
Chris Hemsworth
"You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense."
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"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
William O. Douglas
"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
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"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."
Angela Davis
"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."
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"I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen."
Laurie Anderson
"I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen."
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"I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."
Denis Johnson
"I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."
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"As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected."
Gavin Newsom
"As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected."
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"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."
Orison Swett Marden
"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their 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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"When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club."
Ruud van Nistelrooy
"When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club."
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"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
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"I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part."
Kim Weston
"I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part."
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"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."
Julie Walters
"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."
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"I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody."
Tom T. Hall
"I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody."
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"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa."
Katherine Dunham
"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa."
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"When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it."
Barry Gibb
"When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it."
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"Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future."
Stephen Cambone
"Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future."
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"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."
Studs Terkel
"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."
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"Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it."
Edmund Husserl
"Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it."
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"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
Solomon Burke
"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
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"The days you work are the best days."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"The days you work are the best days."
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"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."
Stephen Sondheim
"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."
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"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."
Eric Hoffer
"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."
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"I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult."
Harvey Keitel
"I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult."
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"Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'."
Tamora Pierce
"Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'."
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