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"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
Anthony Michael Hall
"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
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"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."
Evelyn Ashford
"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."
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"It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control."
Alice Hamilton
"It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control."
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"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
Thomas Friedman
"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
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"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
Georg Baselitz
"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
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"I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work."
John Dyer
"I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work."
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"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."
Julius Streicher
"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."
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"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
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"I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do."
Adam Sandler
"I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do."
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"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Don DeLillo
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
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"Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together."
Brent Scowcroft
"Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together."
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"I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work."
Gregory Hines
"I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work."
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"I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood."
Don DeLillo
"I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood."
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"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."
Tom Sizemore
"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."
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"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"
Alberto Giacometti
"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"
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"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."
James Russell Lowell
"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."
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"The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth."
Louis Agassiz
"The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth."
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"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
Nikola Tesla
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
Carl Sandburg
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
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"Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work."
Delta Burke
"Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work."
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"I want paint to work as flesh."
Lucian Freud
"I want paint to work as flesh."
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"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him."
Jennifer Connelly
"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him."
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"It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do."
Jerome Lawrence
"It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do."
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"You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist."
Jimmy Smits
"You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist."
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"Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her."
Taryn Manning
"Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her."
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"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio."
Martin Milner
"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio."
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"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
Francis of Assisi
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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"You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show."
Graham Chapman
"You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show."
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"I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day."
Alia Shawkat
"I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day."
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"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
Arnold J. Toynbee
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
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"I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work."
Craig Johnston
"I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work."
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"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public."
Robert Morley
"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public."
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"It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!"
Mila Kunis
"It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!"
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"Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work."
Oksana Baiul
"Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work."
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"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."
Harvey Pekar
"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."
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"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal."
Leslie Nielsen
"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal."
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"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
Igor Stravinsky
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
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"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."
Robert Half
"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."
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"The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it."
Syd Barrett
"The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it."
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"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."
Fay Godwin
"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."
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"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."
Charlize Theron
"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."
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"I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high."
John Hall
"I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high."
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"Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'"
Evan Sayet
"Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'"
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"Frank liked administrative work and was good at it."
Denis Norden
"Frank liked administrative work and was good at it."
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"I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour."
John Dyer
"I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour."
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"I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album."
Vanessa Carlton
"I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album."
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"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard."
Shawn Wayans
"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard."
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"I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too."
Anthony Weiner
"I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too."
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"My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work."
Gregor Mendel
"My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work."
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"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
Wole Soyinka
"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
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