- Journalism
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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
- Pay
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- Nov 07, 2020
People would pay money to work at CNN.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
- Clean Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020