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Gordon Parks

"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."

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Angie karan

"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

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Angie karan

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

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Angie karan

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

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Angie karan

"Life experience is the new work experience."

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Angie karan

"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."

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Angie karan

"I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs."

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Angie karan

"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."

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Angie karan

"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

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Angie karan

"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."

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Angie karan

"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."

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Gordon Parks
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."

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Gordon Parks
"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."

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Gordon Parks
"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."

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Gordon Parks
"I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing."

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Gordon Parks
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."

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Gordon Parks
"I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake."

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Gordon Parks
"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

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Gordon Parks
"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start."

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Gordon Parks
"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."

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Gordon Parks
"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."

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