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Career Quotes


"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."


"I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career."


"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career."


"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."


"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."


"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."


"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."


"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to."


"I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else."


"I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career."


"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."


"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."


"I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out."


"The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer."


"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."


"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."


"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."


"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."


"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."


"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."


"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."


"My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done."


"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."


"I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career."


"I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead."


"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while."


"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."


"It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career."


"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."


"In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband."


"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."


"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."


"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"


"I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged."


"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail."


"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."
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