Work Quotes
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.
Kofi Annan
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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
Harold Pinter
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When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
Nancy Pelosi
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I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.
Lois Greenfield
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I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.
David Cook
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Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.
Charlotte Le Bon
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. Abrams
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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
Laura Dern
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I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis
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I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.
Mark Cuban
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The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
Donald Judd
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Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.
Gene Wilder
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I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.
Andie MacDowell
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
Balthazar Getty
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When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.
Ric Ocasek The Cars
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Advice to aspiring models: Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.1
Alessandra Ambrosio
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In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.
Joe Manchin
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I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops.
Charles Bock
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I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
Jennifer Carpenter
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I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.
Jake Busey
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For me, doing good work is important.
Anushka Shetty
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
Duane G. Carey
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
Alfred North Whitehead