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"Be different, stand out, and work your butt off."
Reba McEntire
"Be different, stand out, and work your butt off."
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"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."
Buffy Sainte-Marie
"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."
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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
Philip Warren Anderson
"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
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"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
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"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."
Cameron Diaz
"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."
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"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."
Christopher Darden
"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."
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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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"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources."
Bo Bennett
"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources."
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"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."
Tom Sizemore
"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."
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"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
Richard Pryor
"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
Bruce Lee
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
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"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
Harry S. Truman
"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
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"I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me."
Margot Kidder
"I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me."
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"You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up."
Randy West
"You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up."
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"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together."
Robert Reich
"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together."
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"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
Nikola Tesla
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
Novalis
"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
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"The longer you work here, diverse it gets."
Scott Adams
"The longer you work here, diverse it gets."
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"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
Anthony Michael Hall
"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
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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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"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."
Evelyn Ashford
"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."
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"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
Andy Goldsworthy
"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
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"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."
Martin H. Fischer
"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."
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"I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience."
Robert Wagner
"I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience."
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"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
Jose Marti
"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
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"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that."
Erykah Badu
"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that."
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"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."
Truman Capote
"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."
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"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever."
Patricia Clarkson
"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever."
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"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
Jonathan Franzen
"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
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"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."
Neil Patrick Harris
"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."
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"I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist."
Pam Grier
"I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist."
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"Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?"
Barbra Streisand
"Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?"
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"Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like."
Olivier Martinez
"Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like."
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"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules."
Aaron Klug
"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules."
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"Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry."
Thomas Perry
"Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry."
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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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"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
Javier Bardem
"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
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"My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed."
Ian Hart
"My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed."
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"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy."
Wislawa Szymborska
"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy."
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"I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work."
Joshua Lederberg
"I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work."
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"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
Joel Coen
"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
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"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
Martin H. Fischer
"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
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"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."
Robin Wright Penn
"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."
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"Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work."
Randy West
"Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work."
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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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"I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high."
John Hall
"I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high."
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"I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering."
Harold H. Greene
"I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering."
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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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"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
Napoleon Hill
"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
Carl Sandburg
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
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