Ray Lewis
Football Player
"The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching."
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Grind
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Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur, Investor
"It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind."
Ray Lewis
Football Player
"What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something."
Saul Williams
Poet, Actor, Musician
"Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth"
Wentworth Miller
Actor
"You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people."
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"People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind."
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"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
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"I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish."
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"Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind."
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"The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain."
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"Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day."
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"We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind."
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"Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface."
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"God's mill grinds slow, but sure."
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"But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind."
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"My life is one demd horrid grind."
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"I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind."
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"Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it."
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"Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind."
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"I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind."
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"Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up."
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"The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down."
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"Thus I grind to conclusion."
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"A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground."
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"The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it."
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