Professional Quotes
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As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
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I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't that many models who are still doing it at 60.
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Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.
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Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
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The N.C.A.A. is a multibillion-dollar business built on the talents of players who are often unqualified for or uninterested in being students and who benefit materially from the system only if they are among the few who turn professional.
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We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
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I fell asleep on the situation. I pride myself on being professional and not showing anyone up. It was a poor error in judgment.
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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
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I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
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We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.
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Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.
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The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
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I'm about business. I'm going to handle business like a professional. Aside from that, I'm going to give you everything I've got on every snap.
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Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.
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I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.
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I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.
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I've been a role model in terms of discipline, and I have always been rigorous and professional.
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Being a professional athlete, we all want to win the title.
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Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.
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Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
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The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
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On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.
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Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.
