Work Quotes
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We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.
Barack Obama
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Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.
Eva Hesse
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They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.
James Levine
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I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.
Haywood Nelson
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Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.
David Ignatius
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Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
Morgan Freeman
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Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Part of the way that I work is to observe.
John Hawkes
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In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.
Christian D. Larson
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I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
Hector Elizondo
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I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
Lupita Nyong'o
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For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.
Evelyn Underhill
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As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.
Kevin Plank
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Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art, but most of it comes from a pool of knowledge.
Brian Stelfreeze
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Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
Paul Gauguin
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If you're making a social call, don't call past 8 P.M. The evening is a time when people need a respite from their work - a time to unwind, uninterrupted.
Letitia Baldrige
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You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.
Katie Dippold
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I did a couple quick things with Nicole Kidman, and I really loved that. She was a really cool person to chat with and had a really lovely presence on set. I'm a big admirer of her work. It's amazing the volume of work she does.
Adam Scott
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I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.
Alain Ducasse
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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
Susan Sontag
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I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
John Lloyd Young
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
Bob Goff
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I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.
Chloe Grace Moretz
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You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
Mitch Albom