Profession Quotes - Page 28

• [Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.

  Melinda Gates

  Growing Up, Thinking, Microsoft

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jealous, People, Sometimes

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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• I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.

  William H. Macy

  Thinking, Self, Sticks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

  Jack Black

  Voice, Helping, Findings

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

  Rob Lowe

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to day experiencing in this bloody and butchering department of the healing art. I am more and more delighted with my profession.

  Joseph Lister

  Art, Healing, Degrees

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• If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.

  Joseph Lister

  Science, Practice, Wish

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• The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Strong, People, Ego

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• The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like the Allah of the Mahometans, a talisman or an amulet to be worn on the arm, as an external badge merely and symbol of our profession, and to preserve us from evil by some mysterious and unintelligible potency; but is to be engraved deeply on the heart, there written by the finger of God himself in everlasting characters.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

  Catherine Wilson

  Europe, Punishment, America

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant and confident to the sober and pedantic. It's much better than it was, and a number of male philosophers have been extraordinarily helpful in detecting and criticising everyday sexism in the profession.

  Catherine Wilson

  Numbers, People, Everyday

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I knew that Jaye Davidson would not last because of that. I really liked him and thought he had incredible screen presence and talent, but I knew that he would not stay in that profession.

  Roland Emmerich

  Lasts, Talent, Incredibles

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• Each profession has its own toolkit.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk openly in the economics profession about irrationality in decision-making, I received a lot of criticism. Ginny would support my views and remind me that a whole other profession - psychology - studies people's irrational sides.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

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• When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Moments, Spokes, Site

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the very heart of the policing profession. The problem is sometimes referred to as "the thin blue line." The problem is other times referred to as "the code of silence." It is this tendency to ignore. It is the tendency to deny. It is the tendency, in some cases, to cover up the bad actions of a colleague or colleagues.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Moving, Heart, Blue

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Buttons, Hot

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

  Judd Nelson

  Merit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and that's a sign of being a good leader or a good president. We usually don't expect that of almost anyone else in any profession, in particular, in public life.

  Michael Beschloss

  Leader, President, Particular

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.

  Alice Mattison

  Thinking, Get Money, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Chinese, Art Is

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe - a leader is their profession. And usually they say exactly what the white man wants - wants to hear them say.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, White Man

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• I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

  Quentin Crisp

  America, England

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they have made negro loving a profession.

  Malcolm X

  White, Government, Behind The Scenes

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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