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• A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

  Evan Davis

  Self, Expression, Law

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• Acting is a youthful profession.

  Kirk Douglas

  Acting

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• If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mean, Successful, Age

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• From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

  Roger Ebert

  Drama, Doctors, Cinema

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• The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

  Umberto Eco

  Doctors, Phones, Tools

  "Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism". Book by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. 2007.

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• Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Politics, Serious

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• I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Warfare, Use

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

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• Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

  Arthur Erickson

  America, Building, Specialization

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Jobs, Mean, Playing Yourself

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• I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

  Josh Fox

  Night, Ideas, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Successful, Professionalism, Forget

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• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Kids, Law

  "Henry Louis Gates Uncovers 'Faces Of America'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 17, 2010.

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• Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Interesting Conversation, Perspective

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• Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Mean

  Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.

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• To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

  Robert Graves

  Poet, Conditions

  Reply to questionnaire, "The Cost of Letters", in Horizon magazine, September 1946.

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• I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

  Gary Hamel

  Believe, Choices, Risk

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  I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Believe, Writing, Hobbies

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• Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

  Naomie Harris

  Determination, Needs, Actors

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• People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Genius, Vocation

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• The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Success, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Embarrassing, Egocentric

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• To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

  Geoffrey Holder

  Fighting, Free Spirit, Labels

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• In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

  Johnny Isakson

  Real, Impact, Government

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• The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

  Helmut Jahn

  Integrity, Ambition, Usa

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