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Career Quotes
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
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"I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career."
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"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career."
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"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."
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"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."
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"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to."
11
"I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39."
8
"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
7
"It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career."
6
"I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career."
6
"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
6
"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."
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"And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy."
6
"I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out."
5
"I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career."
5
"Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap."
5
"And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher."
5
"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."
4
"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while."
4
"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."
4
"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."
3
"My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done."
3
"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles."
3
"We are a company that promotes 100% within the company."
3
"Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did."
3
"I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone."
3
"I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now."
3
"I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career."
3
"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."
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"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."
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