"I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen."

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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

Walter Cronkite, American Journalist

Career, Birthday, Want

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

Charlize Theron, South African Actress

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"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

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"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

Career, Freedom, Now, Right

"I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street."

Jojo Moyes, British Novelist

Career, Loss, Work, Identity, Fear

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Career, Pride, Service, Military

"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."

Dave Winfield, American Athlete

Career, End, World, Years

"I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

Career, Honor, Moments, Public

"I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Career, Gratitude, Happiness, Luck, Creativity

"He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing."

Barbara Olson, American Journalist

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"I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons."

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"Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK."

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"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government."

Government

"You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me."

Work

"I would look a little silly playing Casanova now."

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"But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral."

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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."

"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."

"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."

"I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career."

"I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be."

"He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing."

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"I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons."

"Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK."

"The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife."

"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."

"I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting."

"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."

"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government."

"You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me."

"I would look a little silly playing Casanova now."

"But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral."