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I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.


Dinah Shore
Tags: Me Had Never
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
Vincente Minnelli
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Willa Cather
Tags: Great Like World
You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
Kid Rock
Tags: Work You Your
I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
Octavia Spencer
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We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.


Wayne Swan
Tags: Work You Believe
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Every chemical reaction has a transition state.


Derek Harold Richard Barton
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My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.


Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Tags: Work Sit Behind
We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.
John R. Allen
Tags: Time Work Going
Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.
Richard J. Roberts
Tags: Work Been Much
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
Zaha Hadid
Tags: Work More Always
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We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.


Richard Lugar
What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
Joan Rivers
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I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.


Moises Arias
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Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
Richard Engel
Tags: Want Over Does
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.


Jean Cocteau
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
Annie Leibovitz
Tags: Think Always Know
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Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.


Yakov Smirnoff
Tags: Love Off Year
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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.


Max Beckmann
Tags: Work Want Which
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Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.


Denzel Washington