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Work Quotes


"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."


"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."


"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."


"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."


"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."


"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."


"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."


"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege."


"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."


"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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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa."


"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."


"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."


"Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing."


"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"


"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."


"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."


"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."


"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."


"Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."


"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."


"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."


"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."


"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."


"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult."


"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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