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"You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work."
Jay Chiat
"You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work."
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"You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back."
David Strathairn
"You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back."
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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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"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
John D. Rockefeller
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
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"I believe that good things come to those who work."
Wilt Chamberlain
"I believe that good things come to those who work."
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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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"Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up."
Marilu Henner
"Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up."
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"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work."
Lewis Tappan
"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work."
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"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."
Harvey Fierstein
"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."
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"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
Vincent Van Gogh
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
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"The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters."
Bob Greene
"The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters."
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"I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work."
Charlene Tilton
"I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work."
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"All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride."
W. Edwards Deming
"All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride."
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"Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down."
Thom Mayne
"Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down."
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"I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work."
Talib Kweli
"I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work."
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"I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment."
Steven Bochco
"I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment."
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"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies."
Francis Ford Coppola
"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies."
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"I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety."
Barry Levinson
"I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety."
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"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."
Barbara Kruger
"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."
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"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."
Joshua Lederberg
"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."
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"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."
Joseph Beuys
"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."
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"Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy."
Verne Troyer
"Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy."
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"Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair."
David Livingstone
"Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair."
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"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
Claudia Cardinale
"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
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"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."
Barbara Kruger
"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."
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"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."
Abbey Lincoln
"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."
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"If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."
Leslie Stephen
"If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."
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"It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird."
Alex O'Loughlin
"It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird."
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"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me."
Michael C. Hall
"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me."
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"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me."
Evan Hunter
"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me."
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"When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is."
Phylicia Rashad
"When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is."
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"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
Bertrand Russell
"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
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"All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality."
Michele Bachmann
"All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality."
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"I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project."
Atom Egoyan
"I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project."
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"I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it."
Sam Mendes
"I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it."
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"I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!"
Lisa Loeb
"I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!"
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"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."
Fay Godwin
"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."
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"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue."
Donna Shalala
"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue."
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"Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent."
Obie Trice
"Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent."
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"It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me."
Alanis Morissette
"It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me."
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"If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands."
Adam Clarke
"If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands."
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"If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work."
Ian Hamilton Finlay
"If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work."
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"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof."
Neil Gaiman
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof."
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"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Alfred Hitchcock
"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
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"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."
William Albert Allard
"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."
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"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
Charles Babbage
"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
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"It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different."
Christopher Meloni
"It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different."
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"Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday."
Ray Kroc
"Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday."
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"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."
John Astin
"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."
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"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."
Alexander Woollcott
"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."
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