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Work Quotes


"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
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"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."


"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."


"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."



"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."


"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."


"Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together."


"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."


"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!"


"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."


"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."


"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."


"It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do."


"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio."


"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."


"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."


"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."


"The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it."


"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."


"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."



"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."


"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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