Career Quotes
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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You would think that I understood how wrong this was straight away and I didn’t. Musicians are crazy ambitious about getting their craft out there. And that’s why I think there’s so much shame about these kind of situations: Am I that stupid? What is wrong with me? Why have I compartmentalised all of this just for my career? That’s madness.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.
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Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.
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I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
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Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
