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"I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state."

"I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state."

Dave Heineman, American Politician

Work, Family, Ideas, Thoughts

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"There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it."

"There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you."

"If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you."

Bart Starr, American Athlete

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"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

Bob Hope, American Comedian

Work, Fun, Golf, Play

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"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."

"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'"

"I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'"

Al Franken, American Comedian

Work, Day, Job, Months

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"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo."

"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo."

Richard H. Davis, American Writer

Work, Mother, May, Mountains

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"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom."

"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom."

Thomas Merton, American Author

Work, Classroom, Learning

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"Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people."

"Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people."

Lee H. Hamilton, American Politician

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"The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work."

"The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work."

Charles Barkley, American Athlete

Work, Talent, Relax

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"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."

"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."

Beatrice Wood, American Artist

Work, Fact, First

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"I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy."

"I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy."

Winston Graham, English Novelist

Work, Computer, Empathy, Pressure

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"A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing."

"A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Work, Character, Actors, American

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"I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way."

"I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way."

Marie Osmond, American Musician

Work, Control, Environment

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"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."

"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

Work, Quality, God, Exhaustion

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"This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers."

"This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers."

Henry Taube, Canadian Scientist

Work, Approval, Discovery, Joy

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"We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way."

"We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way."

Dwight Yoakam, American Musician

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"I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad."

"I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad."

Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian Politician

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"For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid."

"For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid."

Thom Mayne, American Architect

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"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard."

"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard."

Ernst Lubitsch, German Director

Work, Mediocrity

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"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."

"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."

Scott Adams, American Cartoonist

Work, Company, Credibility, Dumb

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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."

"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency."

"Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

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"I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen."

"I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen."

Tanith Lee, British Writer

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"You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could."

"You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could."

Tom Wilkinson, British Actor

Work, Money, Act, Job

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"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre."

"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre."

Boris Spassky, Russian Celebrity

Work, Actors, Chess, Cinema

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"It always surprised me that I was getting acting work."

"It always surprised me that I was getting acting work."

Mary Lynn Rajskub, American Actress

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"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."

"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."

"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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"I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy."

"I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy."

Julie Benz, American Actress

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"When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth."

"When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth."

Philipus Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist

Work, Earth, Heaven, Man

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"Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work."

"Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work."

Clarence Darrow, American Lawyer

Work, People, Habits

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"I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always."

"I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always."

Mandy Patinkin, American Actor

Work, Privilege, World

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"I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience."

"I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience."

Tobey Maguire, American Actor

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"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality."

"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality."

Gracie Allen, American Comedian

Work, Charm, Force, Integrity

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"The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains."

"The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains."

Ted Lindsay, Canadian Athlete

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"A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would."

"A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would."

Kent McCord, American Actor

Work, Abuse, Hell, Man

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"I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too."

"I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too."

Jerry Harrison, American Musician

Work, Self, Voice, Writing

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"Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens."

"Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens."

Jon Porter, American Politician

Work, College, Debt, Law

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"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."

"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."

Esther Dyson, American Scientist

Work, People, Being, Effort

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"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."

"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."

Ben Shahn, Lithuanian Artist

Work, Influence

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"Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it."

"Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it."

Denzel Washington, American Actor

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"I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy."

"I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy."

Lee Child, British Writer

Work, Job, Jobs, Television

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"I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one."

"I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

Work, Fault, Name, Reputation

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"The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved."

"The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved."

Marge Piercy, American Writer

Work, Talent, Being, Cure

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"I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work."

"I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work."

Jeff Gannon, American Journalist

Work, Now, Will

13

"These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable."

"These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable."

Godfrey Reggio, American Director

Work, Advertising, Ambiguity, Film

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"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."

"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

Work, Fear, Absurdity, Contempt

13

"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."

"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."

Marge Piercy, American Writer

13

"You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it."

"You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it."

Ajay Naidu, American Actor

Work, Shakespeare

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