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Quotes About Work

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
~ Agatha Christie
One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.
~ Ai-jen Poo
I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.
~ Aida Turturro
I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.
~ Aidan Quinn
At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.
~ Aimee Mann
I believe people work for satisfaction.
~ Akio Morita
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
~ Akio Morita
Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
~ Al Franken
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
~ Al Goldstein
It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.
~ Al Gore
My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
~ Al Pacino
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.
~ Al Pacino
I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.
~ Al Yankovic
You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
~ Alain de Botton
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
~ Alain de Botton
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
~ Alain de Botton
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
~ Alan Alda
Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
~ Alan Ball
The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.
~ Unknown
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
~ Alan Cumming
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
~ Alan Cumming
A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
~ Alan Jay Lerner
I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
~ Alan Moore
The boring side of business is what makes it work.
~ Alan Sugar