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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

    Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
   

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

    Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
   

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

    Author: A. E. van Vogt
   

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

    Author: A. R. Ammons
   

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

    Author: A. R. Ammons
   

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

    Author: Aaron Eckhart
   

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

    Author: Aaron Eckhart
   

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

    Author: Aaron Eckhart
   

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

    Author: Aaron Klug
   

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

    Author: Aaron Klug
   

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

    Author: Aaron Klug
   

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

    Author: Aaron Klug
   

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

    Author: Aaron Yoo
   

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

    Author: Abbey Lincoln
   

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

    Author: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
   

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

    Author: Abdoulaye Wade
   

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

I am proud of my work for my country.

    Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
   

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

    Author: Abraham Robinson
   

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

    Author: Adam Ant
   

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

    Author: Adam Arkin
   

It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

    Author: Adam Arkin
   

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

    Author: Adam Baldwin
   

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

    Author: Adam Baldwin
   

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

    Author: Adam Faith
   

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

    Author: Adam Faith
   

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

    Author: Adam Ferguson
   

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

    Author: Adam Hochschild
   

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

    Author: Adam Michnik
   

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

    Author: Adam Osborne
   

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

    Author: Adam Rich
   

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

    Author: Adam Smith
   

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

    Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
   

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

    Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
   

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

    Author: Adlai Stevenson
   

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

    Author: Adolf Loos
   

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

    Author: Adolf Loos
   

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

    Author: Adolf Loos
   

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

    Author: Adolf Loos
   

A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to honor her more.

    Author: Adolfo Lopez Mateos
   

It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.

    Author: Adolph Green
   

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

    Author: Adrian Edmondson
   

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

    Author: Adrian Edmondson
   

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

    Author: Adrian Grenier
   

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

    Author: Adrian Smith
   

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

    Author: Adrienne Rich
   

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

    Author: Adrienne Rich
   

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

    Author: Adrienne Rich
   

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

    Author: Agha Hasan Abedi
   

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

    Author: Agnes Macphail
   

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

    Author: Agnes Martin
   

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

    Author: Ahmad Jamal
   

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

    Author: Ahmad Jamal
   

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

    Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
   

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

    Author: Ahmed Chalabi
   

Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.

    Author: Ahmed Yassin
   

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

    Author: Aimee Mann
   

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.

    Author: Aishwarya Rai
   

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

    Author: Ajay Devgan
   

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