- 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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've always had one Labrador and usually two. I've had some great dogs, and I've had some dogs that didn't work out. I found them good homes and gave them away.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The routines of any ethnic comic - Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example - would not work if they were performed by anybody outside the group. The same routines would become arrogant and racist.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality, no one could win national office after demonizing people because they're Mexican or Muslim. We would be in a place where we would find that unacceptable.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
- Crew
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020