Professional Quotes
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
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Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'
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Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
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One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.
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My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.
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Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.
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My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.
