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“My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.”

Knows Wells Littles Long Ends Sometimes Jobs Fighting Reading Pay Responsibility Fire News The End Of The Day Schedules Digging Long Day Digging Ditches

Author:Lester Holt

“I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.”

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Author:Lisa Rinna

“Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.”

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Author:Marcy Kaptur

“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”

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Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”

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Author:Emily Carr

“How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.”

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Author:Neville Chamberlain

“I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.”

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Author:Butch Hancock

“Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.”

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Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!”

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Book:Secret of happiness, The

Source: Secret of happiness, The

“The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.”

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Author:Brian Setzer

“A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.”

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Author:Rahm Emanuel