Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
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I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
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I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
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I should have known earlier about President Bush, but I gave him some rope - a lot of rope, and then he hung all of us with it. I should have known it when I heard him say 'When it comes to evolution, the jury is still out.' What jury, where? The Scopes Trial is over.
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I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
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Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
