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"People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic."
Ron White
"People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic."
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"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
Maurice Ravel
"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
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"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
Neil Young
"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
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"A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned."
Donna Rice
"A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned."
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
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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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"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."
Mickey Rourke
"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."
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"It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do."
Judd Nelson
"It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do."
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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 never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible."
Manfred von Richthofen
"I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible."
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"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
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"I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets."
Julie Harris
"I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets."
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"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
Francis Ford Coppola
"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
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"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."
Johnny Depp
"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."
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"All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do."
David Ortiz
"All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do."
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"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required."
Chris Hemsworth
"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required."
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"The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves."
Ibrahim Rugova
"The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves."
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"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
Twyla Tharp
"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
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"I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble."
Bruce McCulloch
"I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble."
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"Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant."
Hjalmar Schacht
"Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant."
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"That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something."
Karl Urban
"That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something."
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"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."
Marc Newson
"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."
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"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms."
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms."
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"I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls."
Michael J. Fox
"I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls."
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"I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person."
George Clooney
"I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person."
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"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom."
Major Owens
"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom."
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"I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff."
Annette Bening
"I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff."
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"I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get."
Richard Pryor
"I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get."
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"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."
Jim Morrison
"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."
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"When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun."
Balthazar Getty
"When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun."
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"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
Jason Alexander
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
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"I've tried to let the work I do speak."
David Morse
"I've tried to let the work I do speak."
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"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us."
Heinrich Himmler
"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us."
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"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
Samuel Goldwyn
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
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"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
Indira Gandhi
"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
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"But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get."
Norman Wisdom
"But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get."
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"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
Michael Douglas
"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
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"All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites."
Judd Nelson
"All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites."
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"Work is much more fun than fun."
Noel Coward
"Work is much more fun than fun."
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"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo."
Richard H. Davis
"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo."
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"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
Ann Landers
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
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"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
George MacDonald
"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
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"Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work."
Richard Serra
"Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work."
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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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"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten."
William Bernbach
"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten."
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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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"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
Frank Zappa
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
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"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."
John Ruskin
"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."
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"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."
James Taylor
"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."
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"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
Richard Stallman
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
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