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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

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• The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Needs
  • Need
  • Nation

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Like
  • Looks

• When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Balance

• We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

  

  Foster Friess
  • College
  • Generosity
  • Cats

• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Consciousness

• Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Star
  • Company
  • Hollywood

• Working with Sukumar was amazing. He's someone who trusts his actors and allows them to experiment with dialogues and scenes. When you're working with him, you learn a lot subconsciously, and that helped me in discovering the actor within.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Amazing
  • Actor
  • Working

• We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Profound
  • Unknown

• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • World
  • Death

• I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

  

  Charlie Chaplin

• People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Great

• In some ways, being No. 2 in the ratings is a real shot in the arm, a kick in the pants.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Real

• Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Men
  • Clever

• When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Race

• The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Philosophical

• I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • People
  • American
  • Respect

• I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Stories
  • Tape
  • Recorders

• Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Friday
  • Recognition
  • Monday