Professional Quotes
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People in professional kitchens may love what they do, but sometimes it's just something that puts food on the table.
 Alex Guarnaschelli
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When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
 Kay Redfield Jamison
					 
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From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
 Zainab Salbi
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I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.
 Susan Boyle
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On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.
 Jeanne Marie Laskas
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It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
 Anthony Holden
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There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.
 Anatoly Chubais
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I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.
 Chris Webber
					 
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I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.
 Nick Mancuso
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You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
 John Joseph Lydon
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The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.
 Powers Boothe
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I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for [stand-up or scripts].
 Aziz Ansari
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The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.
 J. D. Salinger
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
 Seth Godin
					 
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I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.
 Darin Strauss
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I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.
 Liana Liberato
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Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
 Cristina Saralegui
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I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
 Martin Yan
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There were dozens of dating apps when Bumble came on the scene, but they weren't able to attract critical mass in a young professional group.
 Whitney Wolfe Herd
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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
 W. H. Auden
					 
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You're well-spoken, or you're very analytical, or you're a great team-builder, or you're great with relationships... Playing to your strengths is always something good to build on because you're trying to develop a foundation to keep growing, as a professional and as a leader.
 Lynn Good
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In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
 Eric Ripert
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When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed."
 Bill Murray
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If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors
 Whitney Tilson