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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.
- Immigrants
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's worth remembering that immigrants come to this country to work, they don't come to get handouts.
- Nov 07, 2020
I will work hard to ensure Hawaii's strategic position in our national security remains strong.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
That used to be one of my greatest fears growing up: my mom would get sick and then she wouldn't be able to go to work and then there is no food or money for rent.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She was a trailblazer who never backed down from a challenge and whose work in Hawaii and Congress brought positive change to the lives of women, children, and minorities in Hawaii and across the country.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
We work really hard to get elected.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are problem solvers, and often we don't get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who's loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That's not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.
- Great Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020