Work Quotes
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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
E. W. Howe
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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
John Crowe Ransom
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As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.
Deborah Tannen
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
Kangana Ranaut
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
Octavia Spencer
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Natasha Lyonne
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
Natasha Little
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I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.
Orlando Bloom
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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Orson Scott Card
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There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
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For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
Charles B. Rangel
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
Hale Irwin
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton
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This acting was very hard work.
Jack Levine
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
