Careers Quotes - Page 26

• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Successful, College, Way

  "Beautiful and damned". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

  Padma Lakshmi

  New York, Paris, Firsts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. December, 2007.

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• I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

  Frank Lampard

  Silly, Challenges, Age

  "Frank Lampard fears for World Cup place as England prepare for Chile" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2013.

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• When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

  Artie Lange

  Political, Clay, Firsts

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Home, Who I Am

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• I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

  John Lasseter

  People, Cartoon, I Realized

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• People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

  Bill Laswell

  People, Existence, Relate

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, School, Years

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• Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

  Queen Latifah

  Fun, Artist, Destiny

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• Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Art, Organization, Different

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• I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

  Avril Lavigne

  Night, Thinking, Voice

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• I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

  Norman Lear

  Strong, People, Way

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

  Denis Leary

  Dad, Men, Ice

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• There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

  Ang Lee

  Regret, Cutting, Thinking

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

  Ang Lee

  Stars, Risk, Acting

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

  Annie Lennox

  Stars, Busy, Pops

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• Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Winning, Accomplishment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

  Leona Lewis

  Believe, Platforms, Music Industry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

  Alex Lifeson

  Long, Records, Enough

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• As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Apologizing, Adages, Courses

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• If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more rewarding career is: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their economic policies. They are the roadblock.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Want, Pay

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• My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

  Jeremy Lin

  Giving Up, Decision, Family And Friends

  "Jeremy Lin: The ‘Linsanity’ Interview". Interview With Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. October 29, 2013.

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• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  Nastia Liukin

  Sports, Gymnastics, My Family

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• I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

  Ken Livingstone

  Average, Years, One Day

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