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• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  W. H. Auden

  Food, Cooking, Murder

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• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

  Charles Babbage

  Medicine, Branches, Chemistry

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.12

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• Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

  Lauren Bacall

  Stardom, Accidents

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• No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

  Shirley Bassey

  Wedding, Years, Bells

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• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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• I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

  Elayne Boosler

  Jobs, Kids, Choices

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• The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Cooking, Noble

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• It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Careers, Stressed

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• While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

  John O. Brennan

  People, Important, Demand

  Remarks by the President in Nomination of Secretary of Defense and CIA Director, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 7, 2013.

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• The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, School, Practice

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• It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

  Julie Burchill

  Acting, World, Fantasy

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• Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Frustration, Paid

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• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Religion, Band

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Mean, Acting

  "Kirk Cameron's Real Life Growing Pains". Interview with Will Dawson, www1.cbn.com.

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• It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

  John le Carre

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

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• My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Patriotic, Skills

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

  James Carville

  Fame, Being Famous

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• I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Editing, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Communication

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

  Tom Colicchio

  Males, Certain, Unfortunate

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• I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

  Joan Collins

  Volleyball, Thinking, Play

  "Tracey Emin". Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

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• You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Different, Opinion, Reason

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• Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

  Kevin Costner

  Actors, Care, Force

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• There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

  Louis C. K.

  Old Friends, Doe, Wow

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, July 5, 2012.

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• Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

  Chili Davis

  Long, Sportsmanship, Our Society

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