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"We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing."
Gordon Brown
"We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing."
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"Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work."
Charles Hodge
"Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work."
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"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him."
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"Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work."
Gil Kane
"Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work."
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"I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters."
Jonathan Demme
"I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters."
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"Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless."
Rob Mariano
"Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless."
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"I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me."
H. P. Lovecraft
"I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me."
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"My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work."
Sparky Anderson
"My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work."
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"Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal."
Nafisa Joseph
"Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal."
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"If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work."
Isaac Mizrahi
"If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work."
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"So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off."
Barbara Boxer
"So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off."
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"You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control."
Jeff Gordon
"You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control."
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"People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient."
Jim Mitchell
"People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient."
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"A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes."
Sam Abell
"A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes."
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"Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with."
Maurice Greene
"Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with."
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"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."
Tanith Lee
"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."
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"This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for."
Chiwetel Ejiofor
"This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for."
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"Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality."
David Gower
"Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality."
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"In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there."
Paul Cullen
"In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there."
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"It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there."
Elmer Bernstein
"It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there."
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"We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it."
Darius Rucker
"We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it."
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"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."
Barbara Kruger
"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work."
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"Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?"
Robert A. Cook
"Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?"
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"The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words."
Stephane Mallarme
"The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words."
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"The concept of 'work-life balance is a fleeting idea for a Bombshell. Instead, a focus on work-life success-where her time and energy shifts based on the rotating demands of each area of her life-is far more realistic."
Amber Hurdle
"The concept of 'work-life balance is a fleeting idea for a Bombshell. Instead, a focus on work-life success-where her time and energy shifts based on the rotating demands of each area of her life-is far more realistic."
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"I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges."
Richard Russo
"I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges."
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"I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized."
Vera Wang
"I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized."
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"Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may."
Nathaniel Parker Willis
"Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may."
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"And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that."
Missy Elliot
"And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that."
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"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."
Henry Rollins
"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."
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"Amateurs hope, professionals work."
Garson Kanin
"Amateurs hope, professionals work."
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"It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves."
Bill Watterson
"It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves."
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"George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy."
Alvin Lee
"George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy."
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"Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction."
Kathy Ireland
"Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction."
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"As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated."
Jonathan Miller
"As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated."
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"When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work."
Elizabeth Anderson
"When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work."
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"Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop."
Jay Chiat
"Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop."
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"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
Hans Hofmann
"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
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"The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas."
Malcolm Mclaren
"The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas."
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"To take my work seriously would be the height of folly."
Edward Gorey
"To take my work seriously would be the height of folly."
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"I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff."
Joseph Fiennes
"I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff."
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"In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way."
Paul Allen
"In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way."
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"We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live."
Arthur Blank
"We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live."
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"First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work."
James McBride
"First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work."
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"If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best."
Peter Farrelly
"If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best."
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"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
Jimmy Carter
"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
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"I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked."
Sol LeWitt
"I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked."
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"I know I work quite hard at making people like me."
Timothy Spall
"I know I work quite hard at making people like me."
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"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
Eugenio Montale
"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
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"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over."
Richie Benaud
"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over."
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