Work Quotes
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My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.
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In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
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Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.
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My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.
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A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
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We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
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My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
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I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.
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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
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If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
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When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.
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So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
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Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.
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I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm happy in my space as a composer.
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Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.
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I feel there is huge potential for India and the U.K. to work together both on the technology space and on the investment space.
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The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.
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I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.
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A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
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I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.
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Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.
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We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.
