Professional Quotes
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No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
H. L. Mencken
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A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.
James Agate
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Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.
Adrian Younge
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As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.
George Cukor
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I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
Joe Namath
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I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.
Jamie Foxx
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Playing in a competition like the Champions League is important for a player; it makes you feel much more of a professional in this sport.
Iker Casillas
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Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
Martin Amis
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Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.
C. S. Lewis
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The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
Art Modell
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Jon Voight
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If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
John Podesta
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Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
Abi Morgan
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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.
Marie Helvin
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Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.
Angie Dickinson
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I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.
Martin Yan
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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
John Ralston Saul
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Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!
Alex Pareene
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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.
Charles Barkley
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You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.
Courtney Love
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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
Joanna Trollope
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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.
Gabe Kapler
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You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
Martin Bashir