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I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and ...

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There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our ...

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There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to st...

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The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself ...

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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all t...

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Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve...

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When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative st...

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Min...

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You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people wil...

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I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity I'd rather do my work and go home.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work ...

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There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitud...

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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which ...

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ...

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Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha...

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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them openi...

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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors....

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I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It'...

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I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But eve...

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When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't...

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating ex...

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There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the...

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I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...

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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excel...

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Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering w...

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I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I ...

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The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement...

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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a so...

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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing ...

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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and gen...

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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiti...

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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communicat...

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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you goin...

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People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perce...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened welfare has been widened - unemployment insu...

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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial valu...

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China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those ou...

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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants,...

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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relat...

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as sayin...

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish...

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so re...

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Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Ilych

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade educ...

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I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this i...

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God made the integers all else is the work of man.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take...

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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representativ...

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward ete...

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Like plowing housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not...

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I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it ...

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Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work,...

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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into w...

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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build ...

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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Lose...

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It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , f...

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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...

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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

If you want something done ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do the more you can do.

Here I am where I ought to be.

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...

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The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to...

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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to som...

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Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will...

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There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, a...

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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is you...

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Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make ou...

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven ...

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In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When t...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it...

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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came ba...

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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone ...

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I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the ...

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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...

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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.