"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."
-Mark Twain
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"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.“
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
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"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
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"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
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"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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