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• It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

  William Feather

  Real, Work, Competition

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• Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Real, Games

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• There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Rain, Fall

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• When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

  Juliette Binoche

  Real, Oscars, Get Back

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• In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.

  Thomas H. Davenport

  Real, Economy, Driven

  Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak (2013). “Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know”, p.90, Harvard Business Press

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• Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can make virtually anything look good. Which means, of course, that she or he can make virtually anything look bad - or look just about any way at all. After all, that is the real work of photography: making things look, deciding how a thing is to appear in the image.

  A. D. Coleman

  Photography, Real, Mean

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• We think we're doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It's as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren't doing any work. It's as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us.

  Jane Caputi

  Stars, Real, Animal

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• I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!

  Wendy Williams

  Real, People, Dancer

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Needs, Done

  "Melissa Harris-Perry", www.msnbc.com. January 10, 2016.

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• I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Real, Austin

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are going to resolve it, the anger and the guilt. The anger on the Aboriginal side; the guilt on the non - Aboriginal side. We have got to deal with that, move on and start doing real work.

  Warren Mundine

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• I would have to say that first preseason game. Just to put the pads on as an NFL player for the first time. It's a humbling experience because you realize that you are here and now you have an opportunity to go to work and continue to better yourself as a player. It's what you work for as an athlete and you know once you get there the real work begins.

  Giovani Bernard

  Real, Athlete, Opportunity

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com. June 9, 2014.

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• The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Math, Years

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• The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Real, Humble

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Father, Real, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until my mid twenties. From all I had heard from other people, art was just something you do as a hobby in between your real work and real jobs.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, Jobs, Real

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Satan, Conflict

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century" by A. J. Broomhall, Book Six: Assault on the Nine, London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, (p. 189), 1988.

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• If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Intellectual Arrogance

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• I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.

  Angela Lansbury

  Memories, Real, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Real, Greed, Lists

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

  Leslie Ludy

  Confused, Real, Hunting

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God”, p.6, Harvest House Publishers

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• On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

  Maya Angelou

  Real, Garden, Play

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• If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Purpose, Want

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Understanding, Might

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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