Top 100 Work Seriously Quotes

#1. I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

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#2. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

Virginia Woolf

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#3. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Bernie Glassman

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#4. I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

Tom Verlaine

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#5. The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

Hayley Atwell

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#6. The missional church will take context seriously, but will also work on recovering the biblical narrative with its richness and potency for today's world. When story and context are equally embraced, we are beginning to think and act missionally.

Michael Frost

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#7. CUSTOMER: I'm always on night shift at work.
BOOKSELLER (jokingly): Is that why you're buying so many vampire novels?
CUSTOMER (seriously): You can never be too prepared.

Jen Campbell

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#8. Agent Coulson takes the work very seriously. He certainly has some fun with Spider-Man and the others, but he takes each of their tasks, including when they get involved with the drama club, way too seriously. The adventures that they come up with are really exciting.

Clark Gregg

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#9. The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

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#10. The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don't work.

J.K. Rowling

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#11. That very afternoon, Taft fell seriously ill with what doctors mistakenly diagnosed as dengue fever. He remained bedridden for ten days, and when he returned to work, severe rectal pain prevented him from sitting. At the same time, a fungal infection developed in his groin.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#12. [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

Richard Baxter

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#13. Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Shelley Duvall

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#14. I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

Ryan Seacrest

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#15. If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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#16. We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.

Maurice Gibb

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#17. My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

Dani Shapiro

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#18. I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.

Seth Green

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#19. You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Clint Eastwood

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#20. It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

Eugene H. Peterson

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#21. Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and I'm just having more fun. It's getting more and more fun with each role.

William Sadler

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#22. Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

John Krasinski

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#23. The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Neal A. Maxwell

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#24. Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Margot Fonteyn

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#25. If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

Wendell Berry

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#26. That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life - this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.

Irene Joliot-Curie

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#27. It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

Bryce Dallas Howard

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#28. I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

Christopher Eccleston

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#29. I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Richard Simmons

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#30. I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

Jim Elliot

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#31. I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

Jim Cummings

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#32. I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

Helen Suzman

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#33. I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Brooke Shields

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#34. Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington

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#35. Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

David Niven

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#36. I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

Michael Fassbender

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#37. As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School.

Cesar Milstein

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#38. My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

Jeff Bridges

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#39. As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

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#40. I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

Glenn Howerton

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#41. Do not to take everything personally or so seriously, because sometimes you're just not right for a particular job. You have to be able to take rejection quickly and honestly, know what you need to work on, and move on.

Kellee Stewart

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#42. Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

Angelina Jolie

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#43. Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

Hugh Jackman

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#44. I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.

Kevin Barry

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#45. More than 40 per cent of UK businesses have suffered a security breach from work mobile phones in the past 12 months, according to BT, which has warned that companies are not taking the dangers of smartphones seriously enough.

Anonymous

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#46. Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#47. You need to have a work with your friend, seriously, she just grabbed my dick!' He whisper yelled at me

Kirsty Moseley

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#48. The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

James Van Der Beek

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#49. We need more Spirit-empowered Christians who take seriously their call to witness to God's work in this world, and to do so in unity with other Christians, even if they don't agree on some secondary matters.

Mark Driscoll

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#50. I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Henry Rollins

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#51. I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

Waris Ahluwalia

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#52. I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.

Paul Walker

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#53. I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

James Franco

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#54. By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.

Amy Hoggart

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#55. Children ... need most of the same things adults need
consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

Caroline Pratt

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#56. Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

Teri Hatcher

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#57. With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

William J. Mann

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#58. Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!

Tom Hiddleston

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#59. People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Whitfield Diffie

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#60. I think too, Jay Lethal being apart of Ring of Honor and being in that role where he's one of the guys who has the company on his back, he's taking that very seriously, and you can see it n his work. So it's been really cool to see.

Adam Cole

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#61. I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.

Viggo Mortensen

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#62. This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

Colleen Haskell

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#63. There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

Aubrey De Grey

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#64. I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

Rufus Wainwright

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#65. My advice is: Don't take yourself too seriously, laugh a lot, enjoy your time with family, and appreciate the unique talents of others. Trust in God, love your neighbor, say you're sorry, forgive, and work hard.

Willie Robertson

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#66. If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

Margot Robbie

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#67. I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

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#68. Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their
corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in
them, because we assume that they work even if we do not believe in
them

Slavoj Zizek

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#69. I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

Mira Sorvino

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#70. I've really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

Julia Stiles

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#71. Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.

Lord Dunsany

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#72. I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible ... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.

Keith Coogan

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#73. I was seriously not cut out for undercover work - which was pretty damn obvious, judging by the fact that I was currently cuddling with a suspect.

Alexa Land

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#74. I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

Goldie Hawn

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#75. I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people, a number of artists, who were taking it very seriously and doing very imaginative work with Instagram as the medium.

Stephen Shore

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#76. Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like ... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

B.o.B

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#77. You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

Jack Youngblood

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#78. I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.

Sharon Stone

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#79. Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Alton Brown

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#80. I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

Tim Gunn

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#81. Luchese lit his cigar and pushed up the sleeves of his jacket as if preparing for work. Bring it on, fuckface, James thought. It was hard to take seriously a man that wasn't smart enough to just take the damn jacket off.

Genevieve Dewey

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#82. If you don't take your work seriously enough for proper editing, why should anyone take your book seriously enough to buy?

Mark Stone

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#83. Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.

William H Gass

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#84. I take my work seriously.

Daniel Craig

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#85. The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Chuck Jones

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#86. My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

T. J. Miller

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#87. Well," Nicholas said seriously, "I think that all good gifts come ultimately from God. It wouldn't do for the messenger to take credit for his master's work.

Glenn Beck

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#88. God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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#89. I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

Katrina Kaif

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#90. It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.

Michelle Monaghan

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#91. I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

Barbara Windsor

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#92. Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.

Bob Nelson

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#93. I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

Michael Haneke

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#94. There was a lot of expectations and pressure on the first one, because the fanbase is pretty big, when we were shooting the movie. I think the whole cast was aware of the responsibility we had to tell Stephanie's (Meyer) story, to try to get it right and take our work seriously.

Peter Facinelli

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#95. I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

Ellen Barkin

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#96. A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious.

David Brazier

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#97. Someone says 'inauguration' in my line of work, and you can just bet there'll be freaky shit. It's like quests. You get told to 'go forth and seek the travelcard of destiny' and you know, I mean, you seriously know that it won't have just been left down the back of the sofa.

Kate Griffin

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#98. Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police - whichever work the shorter hours.

Anthony Powell

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#99. I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

Josh Peck

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#100. It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

Nick Hornby

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