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Career Quotes
"One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy."
"Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destiny."
"I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion."
"How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable."
"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
"I don't think it's by any means an end to my career."
"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio."
"They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before."
"An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering."
"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."
"I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty."
"It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks."
"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
"I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me."
"I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too."
"I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company."
"My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done."
"My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing."
"Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point."
"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
"I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine."
"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to."
"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."
"I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser."
"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy."
"If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn."
"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."
"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."
"If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them."
"It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career."
"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
"For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next."
"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."
"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."
"I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career."
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