Worked Quotes
3192 quotes by 2620 authors
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
— Viktor Yushchenko
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The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've ever…
— Michael Kenna
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I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn't a vegetarian long before I realized there's something to that. I don't think…
— Bob Barker
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I always worked as an individual artist even when Group Material asked me to join the group. There are certain things that I can do…
— Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're…
— Tim Conway
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Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.
— Phyllis Diller
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This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State. This meant much…
— Oscar Straus
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I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the…
— Dennis Kucinich
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I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul…
— Steven Adler
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Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what…
— John Wooden
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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you…
— John Wooden
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By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into…
— Damon Knight
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Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color…
— Alex Webb
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On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may…
— Jacques Barzun
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Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I…
— Archimedes
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where…
— Constantine Peter Cavafy
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It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way…
— Karl Blind
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