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"A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent."
Guy Kawasaki
"A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent."
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"I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done."
Alan Cranston
"I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done."
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"Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself."
Peter Farrelly
"Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself."
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"For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it."
Ron Moody
"For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it."
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"A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people."
Hilary Rosen
"A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people."
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"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Charles Baudelaire
"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
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"I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust."
Cory Doctorow
"I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust."
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"I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse."
Thomas Wilson
"I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse."
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"That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate."
Bob Edwards
"That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate."
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"I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for."
Stuart Pearce
"I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for."
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"If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you."
Bart Starr
"If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you."
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"There is a great deal of work that can be done between the SDLP representing the Nationalist population and the Unionist Parties, and I believe we should set down to do that."
Dick Spring
"There is a great deal of work that can be done between the SDLP representing the Nationalist population and the Unionist Parties, and I believe we should set down to do that."
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"I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on."
Marc Davis
"I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on."
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"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work."
Angela Davis
"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work."
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"They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym."
Joe Gold
"They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym."
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"I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them."
Stan Lee
"I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them."
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"It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?"
Elizabeth Joan Smith
"It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?"
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"God made integers, all else is the work of man."
Leopold Kronecker
"God made integers, all else is the work of man."
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"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work."
Chuck Daly
"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work."
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"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers."
John Fowler
"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers."
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"It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something."
Faith Ford
"It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something."
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"When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone."
Chris Cooper
"When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone."
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"One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work."
Claudia Black
"One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work."
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"The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization."
Ken Blanchard
"The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization."
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"And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there."
Lance Ito
"And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there."
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"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."
Edna O'Brien
"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."
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"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field."
Bill Brandt
"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field."
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"I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too."
Elizabeth Berkley
"I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too."
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"I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject."
Meryl Streep
"I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject."
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"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."
Mary Oliver
"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."
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"I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be."
Meredith Monk
"I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be."
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"A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier."
Edith Evans
"A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier."
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"It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning."
Paul Cullen
"It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
Caspar David Friedrich
"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
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"But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it."
Audre Lorde
"But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
George MacDonald
"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work."
Kenneth G. Wilson
"Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work."
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"I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything."
Yul Brynner
"I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything."
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"What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living."
Harry Crews
"What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living."
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"We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions."
Les Paul
"We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions."
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"The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past."
Ruth J. Simmons
"The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past."
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"We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living."
Sunday Adelaja
"We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living."
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"Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will."
Basil Rathbone
"Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will."
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"What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits."
David Cameron
"What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits."
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"I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me."
Rob Paulsen
"I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me."
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"I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more."
Billy Sheehan
"I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more."
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"Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest."
Kim Smith
"Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest."
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
Ronald Reagan
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
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"Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school."
Tom Udall
"Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school."
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"TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic."
Jillian Bach
"TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic."
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