Work Quotes
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There are albums that I like because of specific songs, but then there are albums that I like as a complete body of work. 'Ghetto Fabolous' is an album I lived with daily.
G-Dragon
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There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.
Jennifer Egan
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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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Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.
Jon Katz
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Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.
Aneurin Barnard
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
Anne Tyler
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A lot of times, people just want to be an individual. But if you really want to win, at the end of the day, it's not about you just achieving something. Everybody can achieve more if they work together.
Kevin McCarthy
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Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.
Kelly Wearstler
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Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
Priyanka Chopra
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In my own experience, I plotted and planned my life when I was getting out of law school to know by what year I'd make it to the Supreme Court. That didn't work out the way I planned.
Lloyd Blankfein
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My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
Ben Mendelsohn
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I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.
Kim Cattrall
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Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
Lisa Leslie
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Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."
Caryll Houselander
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It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
Celine Dion
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And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.
Barack Obama
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I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.
Raul Ruiz
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The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.
Scott Adams
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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.
Dennis Ritchie
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We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.
Alexis Wright
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Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.
Barack Obama
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Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.
Twyla Tharp
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I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.
Claire Messud