Worked Quotes
3192 Worked quotes by 2553 unique authors
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Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat…
— William Bell
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Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.
— Max Lucado
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The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the…
— Huey Newton
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There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more…
— Robert Watson-Watt
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[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much…
— Stephanie Kwolek
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And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it and deal with…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I…
— Kim Novak
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All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and…
— Paul Schrader
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Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . .…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for…
— George R. R. Martin
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In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the…
— Stephen Covey
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He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young…
— Jenny Downham
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I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited…
— Jeremy Irons
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IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have…
— Edna O'Brien
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I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to…
— Leonard Nimoy
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In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
— Hilda Solis
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I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!
— Maggie Kuhn
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My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.
— Phyllis Diller
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I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out…
— Nick Diaz
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I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and…
— Bob Newhart
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The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Who Wrote These Worked Quotes
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