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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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"It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed."
Elizabeth Perkins
"It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed."
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"My work is intensely personal."
Andres Serrano
"My work is intensely personal."
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"We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from."
Jose Marti
"We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from."
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"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."
Don Herold
"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."
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"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."
Susan B. Anthony
"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."
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"You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work."
Eddie Murphy
"You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work."
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"There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done."
Albert Camus
"There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done."
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"Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people."
Jeff Sessions
"Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people."
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"I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with."
Joe Rogan
"I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with."
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"Always give your best, today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark."
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Always give your best, today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark."
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"Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure."
Koichi Tanaka
"Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure."
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"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing."
Rose Schneiderman
"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing."
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"Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands."
William Blake
"Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands."
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"The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content."
Fernand Leger
"The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content."
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"When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things."
Richard Gere
"When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things."
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"Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional."
Jahangir Khan
"Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional."
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"In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor."
Trevor Nunn
"In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor."
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"People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly."
David Hyde Pierce
"People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly."
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"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality."
Max Beckmann
"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality."
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"Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them."
Tom Lehrer
"Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them."
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"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."
Edward Hall
"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."
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"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."
Betty Cuthbert
"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."
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"What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it."
Jeff Bridges
"What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it."
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"Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows."
Leon Kass
"Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows."
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"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere."
Peter Lynch
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere."
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"It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years."
Fred F. Fielding
"It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years."
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"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
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"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."
Dick Wolf
"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people."
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"I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come."
Estelle Parsons
"I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come."
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"If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays."
Ray Walston
"If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays."
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"If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road."
Lou Gramm
"If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road."
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"My mother, she's like, She can work on herself."
Nicole Sullivan
"My mother, she's like, She can work on herself."
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"I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe."
Wentworth Miller
"I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe."
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"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes."
David Chalmers
"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes."
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"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."
Andres Serrano
"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."
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"Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues."
Ben Quayle
"Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues."
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"One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules."
Roald Hoffmann
"One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules."
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"More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did."
Brittany Daniel
"More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did."
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"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
Jeffrey Skilling
"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
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"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
Nathalie Sarraute
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
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"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it."
Kevin Costner
"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it."
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"You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day."
Parker Stevenson
"You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day."
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"I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee."
Bruce Vilanch
"I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee."
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"Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit."
Martha Reeves
"Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit."
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