Professional Quotes
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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton
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It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.
Andrew Luck
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My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.
Phil LaMarr
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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
B. B. King
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I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.
Allison Anders
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Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.
Carli Lloyd
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I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.
R. Carlos Nakai
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By harnessing our teammates' unique skills and passion for giving, our professional networks and partnerships, and our financial resources, we will inspire the dreamers and doers of tomorrow and drive positive, lasting change in our communities across the globe.
Dennis Muilenburg
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Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
Venus Williams
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As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
Loudon Wainwright III
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I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.
Lee Bermejo
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My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
Bill de Blasio
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Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
Adrian Edmondson
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I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.
Luis Suarez
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I strive to be professional and to push myself always to do a better job.
Wade Eastwood
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Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.
Lela Loren
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I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.
Alex Morgan
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A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
Tove Lo
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I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.
Bryce Dessner The National
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
Barry McGuigan
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I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money.
Mark Schultz
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
Barry McGuigan
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I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.
Katherine Dunham
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That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
Haley Joel Osment