Occupation Quotes - Page 17

• There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Mother, Wife, World

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• Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sorry, Get Well, Illness

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.20

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• An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Artist, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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• Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Mean, Blessing

  Alexander Maclaren (1908). “The Book of Esther”

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• He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

  Plutarch

  Pain, Mean, Littles

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.319

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• Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.

  Elliott Colla

  War, Cold, Moments

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

  Lake Bell

  Want, Priceless, Best Education

  "Lake Bell on 'Man Up,' Simon Pegg, 'The Secret Life of Pets,' and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.

  Lake Bell

  Ideas, Different, Lucky

  "Lake Bell on ‘Man Up’, Simon Pegg, ‘The Secret Life of Pets’, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Men, Produce

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• Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Length

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

  Loretta Chase

  Mind, Affair, Small Minds

  Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.67, Penguin

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• Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.

  Peter Sarnak

  Frustrated, Research, May

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• The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Adventure, Gentleman, Dull

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

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• I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

  William Proxmire

  Doubt, Banking, Ifs

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• Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, Home, Character

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.53, Da Capo Press

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• As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Age, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.394, Penguin

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• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton

  Crazy, Careers, Doctors

  Michael Crichton's Speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 1999.

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• John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

  Mark Sheppard

  Teacher, Jesus, Plato

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• If one were to claim that the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq have been provided with "keys to heaven" by the Pentagon, would that need historical research to be disproved or would you just say, "That's just propaganda"? Indeed, how can you disprove the claim that U.S. soldiers have such keys? Or why should you disprove such ridiculous claims? It is the accusers who must provide the evidence.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Keys, Iraq, Heaven

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.

  Haskell Wexler

  Jobs, Hard Work, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles.

  Justus Kohncke

  Video, Radio, My Favorite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for Arab tyranny, our ability to keep oil prices too low - at least until recently - our occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.

  Michael Scheuer

  Wise, Civilization, Oil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune.

  David Edelstein

  Stars, Water, Trying

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the Palestinians are doing to fight the Israeli military occupation and terrorism of the sort that resulted in the World Trade Center bombing.

  Edward Said

  Military, Fighting, Example

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

  Edward Said

  Years, Israeli Settlements, Example

  Source: www.progressive.org

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