Work Quotes
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Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey . . . it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.
Gene Klein Kiss
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We agreed that we're going to work on procedure... we're going to try to sit down and work out a framework, we'll meet tomorrow, ... We didn't want to get into the policy side before we had a procedure worked out.
Dennis Hastert
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This organization has been nothing but first class to me, believing in my talent and my skills since I got here. And I'm just here to pay them back with my work ethic.
Antonio Brown
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Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
Marissa Moss
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I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
John Mellencamp
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Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
Carolyn Chute
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I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
Colin Baker
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If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
Jake Arrieta
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I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.
Kyrsten Sinema
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People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.
Jillian Mayer
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The work of the world is common as mud.
Marge Piercy
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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Hard work, careful planning, and realistic financial advice will be required by many to regain solvency.
Lisa Madigan
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The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
Dorothy Thompson
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Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only way to get inside the characters and make the narrative work. It's a storytelling tradition, and I think to come off as genuine then you have to really approach it that way.
Jason Isbell
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I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.
Amy Schumer
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Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.
Jill Abramson
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At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
Donald Pleasence
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Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.
Dylan O'Brien
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I didn't work out with Kobe. I don't know where that came from. I wish I could have.
Kawhi Leonard
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A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.
Matt Harvey
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As for 'taste' as a criterion of painting I find that it is most frequently applied to work that is essentially insensitive, brutal or vulgar beyond question. Could it now be a term with political undertones to seduce, or cover profounder motives of exploitation? I propose it be kept to the wine cellar. There it deceives no one but him who over-indulges.
Clyfford Still
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
David Hockney