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"I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station."
Jon Postel
"I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station."
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"Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry."
James McAvoy
"Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry."
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"What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance."
Jane Campion
"What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance."
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"Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work."
Kevin Eubanks
"Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work."
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"For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid."
Thom Mayne
"For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid."
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"Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date."
Ann Richards
"Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date."
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"That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin."
Edward Lawrie Tatum
"That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin."
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"Two people can work on a problem better than one."
Whitfield Diffie
"Two people can work on a problem better than one."
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"It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of."
Paul Walker
"It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of."
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"It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything."
John Bacon
"It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything."
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"Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it."
Orrin Woodward
"Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it."
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"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."
Jesse Helms
"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."
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"Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work."
Alan Bullock
"Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work."
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"For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work."
Gay Talese
"For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work."
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"Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front."
Marty Meehan
"Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front."
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"I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming."
Sandra Bernhard
"I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming."
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"And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me."
Liam Neeson
"And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me."
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"It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are."
Christina Aguilera
"It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are."
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"Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together."
John Breaux
"Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together."
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"Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another."
Jasper Johns
"Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another."
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"If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people."
Harold Bloom
"If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people."
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"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."
Cat Stevens
"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."
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"When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either."
William Masters
"When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either."
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"One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River."
Ron Kind
"One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River."
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"So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude."
S. A. Tawks
"So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude."
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"In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ."
William Gurnall
"In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ."
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"Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals."
Christopher Dodd
"Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals."
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"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
Griffin Dunne
"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
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"We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world."
Matthew Lesko
"We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world."
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"When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece..."
Ramana Pemmaraju
"When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece..."
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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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"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing."
Robert Wyatt
"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing."
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"It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain."
Charles Dickens
"It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain."
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"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."
Ellen Goodman
"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."
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"That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off."
Julia Ormond
"That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off."
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"In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting."
Bob Edwards
"In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting."
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"You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors."
Arundhati Roy
"You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors."
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"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define."
Lee Krasner
"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define."
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"Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted."
Michael Pitt
"Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted."
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"I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really."
Karl Urban
"I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really."
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"Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year."
Tom Glazer
"Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year."
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"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."
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"I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it."
Akshay Kumar
"I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it."
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"The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook."
Sean Astin
"The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook."
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"When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied."
Dan Fouts
"When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied."
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"Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast."
John C. Ransom
"Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast."
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"People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo."
Wayne Coyne
"People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo."
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"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction."
Sholom Aleichem
"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction."
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"Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it."
Scott Wolf
"Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it."
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"The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act."
Joe Biden
"The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act."
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