Famous Quotes: Work

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
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I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
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My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
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You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.
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If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.
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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
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Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.
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It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
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I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
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