Profession Quotes - Page 35

• I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

  James Earl Jones

  Running, Night, Actors

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• In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

  Rashida Jones

  School, High School, Acting

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• There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Birthday, Men, Views

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• No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Race, Class, People

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• I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

  Steve Kerr

  Motivational, Basketball, Heart

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• I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Responsibility, Trying, Medical Profession

  " 'Dr Death' Jack Kevorkian, advocate of assisted suicide, dies in hospital" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

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• Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

  John Locke

  Men, Littles, Information

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• I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

  Christian Louboutin

  Dirty, Book, Doctors

  "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Patience, Practice, Social

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.114, Sophia Institute Press

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• If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Scary, Receiving, Reason Why

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• I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

  Chris Martin

  Wife, Trying, Private Life

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• I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

  Marissa Mayer

  Want, Loses

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• I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

  Bette Midler

  Way, Born, Entertaining

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• With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

  Sienna Miller

  People, Acting, Example

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• When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.

  Helen Mirren

  Powerful, People, Acting

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• Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Birthday, Children, Nursing

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• One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates, www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

  Mary Oliver

  Poetry, Way, Empty

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• The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Should Have, Age

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.326, Duke University Press

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• We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

  Mehmet Oz

  Mistake, Care, Fixing

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.

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• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  Camille Paglia

  People, Intellectual, Generations

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• Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Hatred, Noble

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• When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

  Brad Pitt

  Art, Class, Littles

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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