Work Quotes
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Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
Marina Abramovic
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'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.
David Ayer
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You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.
Dave Ramsey
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God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
J. I. Packer
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Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.
Ann McLane Kuster
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I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.
Olivier Theyskens
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Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.
Brandon Stanton
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Kendrick Lamar is a phenomenal artist whose work has served as a catalyst to raise a new level of consciousness for this generation. His message challenges the status quo and motivates listeners to rethink our society's institutions.
Aja Brown
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Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
William Feather
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You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
Charlotte Rampling
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
P. G. Wodehouse
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The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people have very many ideas on how to get fundamentally new sources of water. We sort of think we've thought that problem through. I hope that's not true.
George M. Whitesides
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You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.
Anna Faris
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I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
Brittany Murphy
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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
Jonathan Sacks
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My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.
Barun Sobti
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Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.
W. S. Merwin
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney
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My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form.
Lady Gaga
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Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
Dweezil Zappa
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
Sam Shepard
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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
David Livingstone
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There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
Countee Cullen
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My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
David Geffen