"I gave up my childhood for a career."

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"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

Career, Career Growth, Opportunity, Success

"Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Career, Joblessness, Time, Growth, Development

"A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks."

Steve Guttenberg, American Actor

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"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."

George Harrison, British Musician

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"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career."

Rupert Holmes, English Composer

Career, Years

"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."

E. Howard Hunt, American Criminal

Career, Man

"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

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"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."

Harold Budd, American Composer

Career, Ending

"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me."

Children

"I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash."

Time

"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."

First

"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."

Feelings

"I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame."

Woman

"I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can."

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"Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!"

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks."

"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."

"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career."

"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."

"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."

"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."

"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."

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"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me."

"I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash."

"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."

"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."

"I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame."

"I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart."

"I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia."

"I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America."

"The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders."

"I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can."