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My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. -- Tim Murphy
Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers. -- David Horsey
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions. -- Vic Morrow
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. -- James Clavell
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. -- A. S. Byatt
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly. -- Pierce Brosnan
Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model. -- Jimmy Fallon
I think any workplace relationship is dangerous. That's been my personal experience. They haven't always worked out the best. But I know other people for whom it worked out great. -- Kevin Rahm
Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting. -- Jill Abramson
Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well. -- Anthony Anderson
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. -- Alexander Alekhine
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. -- C. S. Lewis
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own. -- Irwin Shaw
My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child. -- Miru Kim
Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into. -- Michael Raymond-James
I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. -- Ivan Lendl
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work. -- Caitlin Fitzgerald
I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work. -- Harold Brodkey
Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred. -- Sarah Gadon
Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever! -- Eliot Ness
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind. -- Daniel H. Wilson
What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway. -- James Comey
I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes. -- Will Smith
It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work... -- Spike Lee
Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work. -- Peter Lynch
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. -- Ambrose Bierce
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty. -- Ellen Key
The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf. -- Thomas Sowell
Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it. -- Candace Bushnell
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. -- Horace
The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today. -- Bill Moyers
I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment. -- Rudolf Bing
It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves. You'd fall asleep on stage. -- Bob Odenkirk
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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