- Never
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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
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
- Outdoors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'
- Chaplin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.
- American Audiences
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.
- Arrogance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the two things I can control. As far as injuries and wear and tear and stuff like that, it's going to happen.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.
- Great Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020