Quotes with needle-work

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 1709.

  • Elbert Hubbard We work to become, not to acquire.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Butch Trucks We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Cecil Day Lewis We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.
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  • Beyonce Knowles We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Carl Honore We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Audre Lorde We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Boris Yeltsin We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Mikulski We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Humphrey Bogart Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
    Humphrey Bogart
    American screen and stage actor (1899 - 1957)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Charles Darwin What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ben Affleck What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Barkhad Abdi What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Bill Griffith What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Beth Brooke What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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