Careers Quotes - Page 19

• I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

  Kim Cattrall

  Retirement, Thinking, Desire

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• You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

  Kim Cattrall

  People, Age, Botox

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• In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

  Kim Cattrall

  Thinking, Interesting, Want

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• A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

  Nick Cave

  Rocks, Musician, Needs

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• In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

  Julia Child

  Mother, Children, Nice

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

  Margaret Cho

  Jobs, Self, Issues

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• It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

  Helena Christensen

  Fashion, Incredibles, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

  Chris Christie

  Teacher, Vision, Benefits

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• One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

  Chris Christie

  Retirement, Years, Benefits

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• When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Fashion, School

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• One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, Hype, Judging

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• It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

  George Clooney

  Weekend, Proud, Film

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• An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Fall, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Taken, Night

  "Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn't Suck". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 1994.

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• I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

  Diablo Cody

  Midwest, Realistic, Possibility

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• I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

  Paulo Coelho

  Parent, Brazil

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• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  J. Cole

  Jobs, Tired, College

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• The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

  Gail Collins

  Kids, Responsibility, Keys

  "How You Can Get Everything Your Mom Couldn't". Interview with Ashley Womble, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 16, 2009.

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• In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

  Gail Collins

  Dream, Kids, College

  "Having None of Having It All". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 13, 2013.

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• There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.

  Gail Collins

  Running, Home, People

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

  Joan Collins

  Book, Opportunity, Fda

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• Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

  David Cone

  Hurt, Thinking, Player

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• You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Kids, Piano, Broadway

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• I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

  Dane Cook

  Psychology, Awful, Ifs

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• I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Gun, Atheism, Unhappy

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