Work Quotes
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It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.
J. Edwin Orr
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I have a dual role as founder of AERIN and Image and Style Director of Estee Lauder. So work is a bit of a juggling act.
Aerin Lauder
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We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.
William Jenkyn
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I don't understand actors who complain when they get work. 'I'm working too much. I've got to get up too early ...' Isn't this the point? There's somebody right now who's bussing tables who would love your problems.
Aldis Hodge
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At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
Kenneth Branagh
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
Andrew Bird
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Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.
Lynsey Addario
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I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
Marianne Faithfull
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I used to work at a puppy nursery.
Channing Tatum
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I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.
Jeremy Scott
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I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.
Derek Walcott
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I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
Catherine Deneuve
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If you have a great story, any film will work.
R. Madhavan
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
Thomas Carlyle
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The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
A. S. Byatt
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
Rita Mae Brown
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I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.
David Hasselhoff
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Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.
Charles Kennedy
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A political consultant, when we first started thinking about Senate race, said, "You can have one funny name. You can be 'Barack Smith.' Or you can be 'Joe Obama.' But 'Barack Obama' - that's not gonna work."
Barack Obama
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Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
Pierre Bonnard
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This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.
Adam Nicolson
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I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.
Laurence Fishburne
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It's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.
Christina Stead