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Career Quotes
"I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career."
"One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good."
"When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career."
"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."
"And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career."
"Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense."
"We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough."
"When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues."
"He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else."
"I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out."
"Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?"
"We've been through about a million different line-ups throughout our career."
"Having a job is being busy."
"Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is."
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."
"This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too."
"Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times."
"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."
"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career."
"I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to."
"I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald."
"And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived."
"I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged."
"Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career."
"I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private."
"I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career."
"Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia."
"So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before."
"Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it."
"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
"I have yet to write that one song that defines my career."
"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."
"I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it."
"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."
"Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts."
"I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead."
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