Careers Quotes - Page 36

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  J. C. Watts

  "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview With Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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• Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Saws, Firsts, Superstar

  Interview with Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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• The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

  Max Weber

  Men, Hands, Everyday Routine

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.115, Routledge

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• Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

  Johnny Weir

  Thinking, Creating, Laughing

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• My whole career, I've had an issue with always kind of being an underdog and making a big mistake when it counts and falling and having to climb back up. One moment everything will be peachy and everyone will be saying the nicest things about me and loving me, and the next minute I'm the worst, I'm evil, all these things. It's like a fallen angel.

  Johnny Weir

  Mistake, Fall, Angel

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• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Half, Want

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• I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

  Betty White

  Children, Thinking, Focus

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  Olivia Wilde

  Years, Firsts

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• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  Olivia Wilde

  Diversity, Decision, Age

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• I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Young, Continuing

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• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

  Brian Wilson

  Thinking, Long, Advancement

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• Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Phases, Muse

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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, Mind

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’ (INTERVIEW, EXCERPT)". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  Fred Wilson

  Years, Long, Investing

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• I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Passion, People

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• I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Marriage, Dog, Husband

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 15, 2005.

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• I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking

  "Reese Witherspoon's New Passion". Interview with Abigail Pesta, www.marieclaire.com. January 11, 2008.

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• What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

  James Wolcott

  Dream, Ghetto, Dope

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• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Dick Wolf

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, Fiction, Like Me

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• The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Focus, Special

  "Tiger Woods to return to golf at Masters". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

  Tiger Woods

  Different, Lucky, Able

  Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. November 21, 2011.

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