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"I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff."
Esther Dyson
"I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff."
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"I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus."
Giovanni Ribisi
"I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus."
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"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"
Zora Neale Hurston
"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"
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"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
Sarah McLachlan
"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
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"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
Dario Argento
"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
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"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven."
Knute Rockne
"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven."
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"One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work."
Roger Corman
"One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work."
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"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."
Alison Bechdel
"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."
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"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
Paul Hogan
"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
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"It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work."
Howie Mandel
"It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work."
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"A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned."
Ewan McGregor
"A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned."
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"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start."
Issey Miyake
"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start."
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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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"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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"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege."
David Geffen
"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege."
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"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."
Russell Crowe
"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."
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"You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!"
Marie Corelli
"You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!"
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"I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work."
Tony Conrad
"I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work."
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"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
James Lane Allen
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
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"Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation."
Gary Miller
"Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation."
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"My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then."
Tim Murphy
"My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then."
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"He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done."
Charles Mackay
"He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done."
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"As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people."
Arthur Middleton
"As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people."
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"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."
Pamela Stephenson
"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."
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"A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job."
Zig Ziglar
"A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job."
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"When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa."
Sargent Shriver
"When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa."
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"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together."
Tadao Ando
"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together."
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"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work."
Margaret Fuller
"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work."
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"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."
Simon Sinek
"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."
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"If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work."
Kate Beckinsale
"If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work."
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"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
Olive Schreiner
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
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"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
John Ruskin
"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
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"Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing."
Ford Frick
"Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing."
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"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."
Gordon B. Hinckley
"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."
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"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
Frances McDormand
"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
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"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
Edward Gibbon
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
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"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"
Nathan Lane
"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"
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"Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song."
Kelly Jones
"Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song."
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"Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future."
Stephen Cambone
"Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future."
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"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."
Studs Terkel
"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."
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"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."
E. Stanley Jones
"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."
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"Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."
Roger Staubach
"Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."
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"It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison."
Ashley Montagu
"It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison."
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"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
Charles Baudelaire
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
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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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"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
Theodor Reik
"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
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"I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood."
Marilyn vos Savant
"I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood."
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"With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart."
Joe Strummer
"With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart."
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"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult."
Mark E. Smith
"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult."
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"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."
Satyajit Ray
"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."
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