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"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."
Anthony Anderson
"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."
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"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
Helmut Jahn
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
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"I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural."
Charlize Theron
"I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural."
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"And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit."
Gerald Scarfe
"And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit."
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"Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together."
Mary Ann Mobley
"Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together."
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"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam."
King Hussein I
"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam."
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"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."
Michael Jordan
"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."
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"I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently."
Garth Ennis
"I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently."
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"Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses."
Sergei Bubka
"Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses."
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"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
Mother Teresa
"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
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"We are immortal until our work on earth is done."
George Whitefield
"We are immortal until our work on earth is done."
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"Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days."
Jeffrey Donovan
"Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days."
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"There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful."
Dennis Quaid
"There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful."
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"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."
Fred Rogers
"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."
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"May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production."
Mwai Kibaki
"May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production."
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"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
Jason Alexander
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
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"I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right."
Oscar de la Renta
"I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right."
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"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
Dylan Thomas
"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
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"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
Francis Ford Coppola
"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
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"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."
Marlo Thomas
"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."
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"All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do."
David Ortiz
"All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do."
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"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness."
Herman Melville
"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness."
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
Newt Gingrich
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
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"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
Jessica Lange
"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
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"I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week."
Jerry Falwell
"I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week."
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"I don't work at being ordinary."
Paul McCartney
"I don't work at being ordinary."
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"Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed."
St. Jerome
"Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed."
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"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
Constantin Brancusi
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
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"Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game."
Sanaa Lathan
"Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game."
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"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
Twyla Tharp
"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
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"I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up."
Teri Hatcher
"I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up."
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"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day."
George Allen, Sr.
"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day."
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"Take your work seriously and yourself lightly."
Bob Nelson
"Take your work seriously and yourself lightly."
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"But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work."
Donna Tartt
"But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work."
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
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"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."
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"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
Vince Lombardi
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
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"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
Michael Douglas
"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
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"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
Harold Pinter
"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
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"The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves."
Ibrahim Rugova
"The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves."
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"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."
Dmitri Mendeleev
"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."
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"I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day."
Dannii Minogue
"I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day."
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"I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets."
Julie Harris
"I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets."
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"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles."
William Hazlitt
"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles."
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"The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines."
Orville Wright
"The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines."
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"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."
Kevin Bacon
"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."
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"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
Mother Teresa
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
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"A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm."
Jef Raskin
"A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm."
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"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."
Julian McMahon
"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."
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"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
Ayrton Senna
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
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