"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
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"Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them."
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"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them."
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"Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!"
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"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."
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"I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job."
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"I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them."
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"Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job."
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"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears."
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"Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again."
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"While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important."
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"The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world."
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"A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible."
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"We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment."
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"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."
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"Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling."
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"The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one."
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"Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people."
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"The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."
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"Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years."
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