Profession Quotes
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I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
Alyson Hannigan
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn
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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
Simone Signoret
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I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.
Gerard Depardieu
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Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.
Stephen Sondheim
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The profession is designed to help the court by making sure that the best possible arguments - not misleading arguments, not arguments that stretch a point, not arguments that hide precedents - but that the best possible arguments are presented, ... That's the business we're in. It's very much like if you were a doctor. Do you only cure people who, when they're cured, will lead their lives as you were going to lead them?
Charles Fried
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Kevin Spacey
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I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
Cate Blanchett
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Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Georges Bizet
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What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
Lorin Maazel
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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.
Honore de Balzac
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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
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I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
George Meany
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The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession.
Claudia Schiffer
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Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.
Neal Gabler
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
Doris Humphrey
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It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
Amy Poehler
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In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.
Brian Tracy
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I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.
Tony Kushner
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
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Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
Craig Claiborne
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Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.
Vivek Wadhwa